Re: [avr-gcc-list] is tiny15 not c-programmable

[David Brown]

>> But I could program attiny15l in C using iccavrtiny.
>> Can someone please exlpain.

> Probably ICC can. ;-)

> Nobody considered the effort worth a while to port gcc to an
> architecture that doesn't even have RAM.  It might even be impossible
> to do it.

> Other compiler vendors have other implementation strategies.  So if
> you feel like programming such a tiny controller in C, you just cannot
> use gcc.

Although the tiny does not have any ram as such, the registers are
addressable as ram entries (this applies to all the AVRs - it could be used
for optomisations of code in which the address of local variables are taken,
but it might lead to madness for the avr-gcc developers).  It would be
perfectly possible to dedicate a group of registers to be the "stack", and
use normal gcc to generate the code - that is pretty much what ImageCraft's
tiny avr-icc does.