Re: FPGA C Compiler on sourceforge.net (TMCC derivative)

Another developer joined the FpgaC project today to cleanup some of
the yacc/lex design issues as a C compiler (like variable scope).

This, structures, unions, typing, and unsigned variables are on the
near
term list of things to fix in this compiler so it will take a cleaner
subset
of traditional C.

Longer term I would like to add direct support for bit serial
distributed
arithmetic to be able to support multiply, multiply-accumulate, divide
and mod (%) operations. Plus add direct support for threads by using
some compiler primatives that know about fork(), exec(), along with
library primatives for MPI and posix-threads so that parallelism would
remain expressed the same way in FPGA and RISC/CISC testing
environments.

Anybody else have pet ideas, suggestions, or wish-list items that
a C based HLL/HDL tool should handle?

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