Rebecca Bettencourt wrote:
> On 2009-01-03 20:01:07 -0800, David Schmenk
 said:
> 
>> mdj wrote:
>>> On Jan 3, 3:52 pm, David Schmenk  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Another important piece to consider is the development environment.
>>>> Writing a core multitasking kernel isn't particularly difficult, but
>>>> having tools such as compilers and debuggers is a large part of the
>>>> project - sometimes larger than the kernel itself. If you
want to make
>>>> it open source, you'll want to find a tool suite that can be made 
>>>> easily
>>>> available.  Do you want to self-host or do you want to
cross-compile?
>>>> Determination of the tools might even help dictate the design and
>>>> complexity of the kernel.
>>>
>>> The reliance on a commercial tool chain has always been an impediment
>>> to IIgs development... Well, that plus the 5 manuals you'll need to
>>> buy. I guess there's Merlin 16, but a non-Unixy toolchain just seems
>>> 'wrong' nowadays
>>>
>>> Matt
>>
>> So who is going to add 65816 support to gcc ;-)
> 
> Found it: http://oric.free.fr/COMPILERS/gcc6502.src.tgz :)
> 


Too funny.  I didn't even bother doing a Google search thinking "nobody 
would do such a thing."  It isn't a complete solution, but possibly a 
start for a 65816 port, possibly using ca65 (from cc65) as the backend.

Dave...
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