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Re:Motorola 6800 by klodolph on Friday June 24, 2022 @06:20PM (#31870224)
Just for modern perspective... you can use SDCC. It's an open-source optimizing C compiler targeting small microprocessors like the Z80 and various others. The project itself is terribly run--the maintainers recently pushed out an ABI change which broke everyone's code, but released it as a minor version bump. This ABI change did speed up the code, but that's small consolation to anyone who ended up with broken code.

IMO the Z80 is a lot nicer compiler target than the 6502, because the stack pointer is 16-bit and it's much easier to use the stack in general.

There are a couple C compilers for 6502 (like cc65 and WDC's C compiler) but they're not quite as good as SDCC, as far as I can tell. They're also not as actively maintained.

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Re:Motorola 6800 by davidgould on Saturday June 25, 2022 @12:26AM (#31872615)
> The project itself is terribly run--the maintainers recently pushed out an ABI change which broke everyone's code, but released it as a minor version bump.

When was this? What version? Thanks.

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Re:Motorola 6800 by klodolph on Saturday June 25, 2022 @07:14AM (#31874301)
SDCC 4.2.0, released Mar 8, 2022.
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Re:Motorola 6800 by davidgould on Saturday June 25, 2022 @07:53PM (#31879748)
I don't think your comment about a breaking abi change on a minor point release is fair. Perhaps you have misunderstood the release number scheme? Every year around the first quarter they have one major release, ie 3.9, 4.0, 4.1, and now 4.2. A minor release would be like 4.2.1. There is no significance to the major digit, ie 4.0 was just the release a year after 3.9 and not otherwise special.

I'm not affiliated with the project, but I think would be unfortunate if someone was turned away using or contributing to the best or only opensource tool chain for a number of processors (eg the paduak family) because someone claimed the project was terribly run.

Please consider updating your comment.

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