Re: [sdcc-devel] gbz80 status

[Philipp K. K. <pk...@sp...>]

Am 15.10.2011 17:24, schrieb Borut Ražem:
> While reviewing the "SDCC Home" web page I noticed that there is written 
> that gbz80 target is no longer maintained. I think that this is not 
> totally true since (if I remember well) Philipp made some fixes. I think 
> that it is not much lesser maintained then pic targets are :-(
> 
> Looking to the bug tracker I found only two open bugs, both related to 
> the _Bool data type, which IMHO are not critical since the workarounds 
> exists, e.g. using char instead _Bool.

There are some more regression test failures for me.

> 
> Maybe we can even add it to the list of maintained targets, but in this 
> case I propose to add the regression test to the snapshot builds.

And this is where the ralproblem lies: At least for me (64 bit
GNU/Linux), the simulator crashes in some regression tests. AFAIK it
works on 32 bit x86.

> Philipp, what do you think?
> 

I'd even be willing to have a look at the gbz80 bugs and fixing them if
we had a working simulator. We should probably make a ucgbz80 simulator
derived from the z80 one, like Leland did with ucr2k.

Philipp