[sdcc-devel] 8080/8085 support

[Michael H. <mha...@gm...>]

Hi everyone,

Years ago, I was considering jumping in to help/do SDCC support for
8080/8085. Now, I am seriously about to begin doing just that. But
before I do, I would like to understand the testing that is done as
part of your build processes. And, I seem to recall that there was
initial discussion about the limitations of the number of registers in
the 8080 that would make it unsuitable for C/SDCC.

So my first questions are:
1) Is the 8080/85 considered too primitive to be a successful target
for SDCC? Lack of registers? Other whys?
2) What does "unit testing" comprise of in the SDCC build environment?
Is there some dark room somewhere with a stack of old school computers
running different CPU's that get exercised? Or is "testing" done some
other magical way? In other words, would I need to design a test rig
for the 8080/85 that can be used for testing?

Cheers,

-- 
Michael A Hawkins
Stamford, CT 06902 USA
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