glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:> Randy Yates wrote: > > (snip) > > > I think you're closer to the truth Jerry. Also, Glen, we're talking > > about "C" here, not Fortran. > > > The statement was that the technology was 50 years old. The specific > implementations weren't, obviously, that old.I guess there's some ambivalence as to whether the subject is "C compilers" or "compilers in general." Tim said "the technology" without regard to a specific compiler, but it was in response to the original poster and thus ostensibly was regarding C compilers. It is interesting to hear that FORTRAN dates at least as far back as 1956 though! -- Randy Yates Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Research Triangle Park, NC, USA randy.yates@sonyericsson.com, 919-472-1124
any software to translate C code to assembly code?
Started by ●May 14, 2005
Reply by ●May 16, 20052005-05-16
Reply by ●May 16, 20052005-05-16
Randy Yates wrote:> glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> writes: > > >>Randy Yates wrote: >> >>(snip) >> >> >>>I think you're closer to the truth Jerry. Also, Glen, we're talking >>>about "C" here, not Fortran. >> >> >>The statement was that the technology was 50 years old. The specific >>implementations weren't, obviously, that old. > > > I guess there's some ambivalence as to whether the subject is "C compilers" > or "compilers in general." Tim said "the technology" without regard to > a specific compiler, but it was in response to the original poster and thus > ostensibly was regarding C compilers. > > It is interesting to hear that FORTRAN dates at least as far back as 1956 > though!I was thinking compilers in general, but should have taken the relative youth of C into account. I kinda regret being so snide, but hopefully my comment helped anyway... ------------------------------------------- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services http://www.wescottdesign.com
Reply by ●May 17, 20052005-05-17
I seem to remember Motorola having a freebie C compiler for the on its website under Development tools (or something like that). It was called cc563. I downloaded it and looked at it but never used it as I was playing with 56002's at the time, and did not have the excess MIPs to waste on a high level language. The compiler may no longer be available for download as Motorola (now Freescale) seem to be directing people towards the Code Warrior & other commercial software suites. I think I might still have a copy, but that was 2 or 3 PC replacements ago. There are at least a couple of hundred files in the set, so you would have to convince me that you really, really, really could not get it any other way. BTW, does anyone know what brought on the Freescale name change? I usually associate that sort of thing with upper management getting bored and re-arranging the deck chairs, dodging an acquired bad reputation, attending too many gung-ho motivation seminars, changing core business focus, or some combination of the above. Jim Adamthwaite
Reply by ●May 17, 20052005-05-17
Jim Adamthwaite wrote:> I seem to remember Motorola having a freebie C compiler for the on its > website under Development tools (or something like that). It was called > cc563. I downloaded it and looked at it but never used it as I was playing > with 56002's at the time, and did not have the excess MIPs to waste on a > high level language.It was a port of GNU GCC. You had to help it with the tight kernels, but it churned out all the straightforwrard stuff pretty well.> The compiler may no longer be available for download as Motorola (now > Freescale) seem to be directing people towards the Code Warrior & other > commercial software suites. > > I think I might still have a copy, but that was 2 or 3 PC replacements ago. > There are at least a couple of hundred files in the set, so you would have > to convince me that you really, really, really could not get it any other > way. > > BTW, does anyone know what brought on the Freescale name change? I usually > associate that sort of thing with upper management getting bored and > re-arranging the deck chairs, dodging an acquired bad reputation, attending > too many gung-ho motivation seminars, changing core business focus, or some > combination of the above.Now they are no longer a part of Motorola, they could hardly continue using the same name. Regards, Steve
Reply by ●May 18, 20052005-05-18
The name change was due to the fact that last year Motorola spun off their semi-conductor business into a whole new independent company now called FreeScale. There is no connection anymore between them except Moto owns a large chunk of FreeScale stock. -- Chip Wood "Jim Adamthwaite" <secad@netspace.net.au> wrote in message news:d6d1ul$1bo3$1@otis.netspace.net.au...> BTW, does anyone know what brought on the Freescale namechange?
Reply by ●May 21, 20052005-05-21
"Chip Wood" <chip.wood@motorola.com> wrote in message news:d6fs0t$str$1@avnika.corp.mot.com...> The name change was due to the fact that last year Motorola > spun off their semi-conductor business into a whole new > independent company now called FreeScale. There is no > connection anymore between them except Moto owns a large > chunk of FreeScale stock.On December 2 there was a tax-free distribution of shares of Freescale (lowercase s) FSL common to the then Motorola stockholders of record. There is not any significant ownership of Freescale Semiconductor stock by Motorola proper, as evidenced below. http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/ownership/ownership.asp Freescale Semiconductor Inc: OwnershipOwnership Information Shares Outstanding 401.00 Mil Institutional Ownership (%) 32.10 Top 10 Institutions (%) 20.42 Mutual Fund Ownership (%) 18.72 5%/Insider Ownership (%) 0.91 Float (%) 99.09 http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/research/profile.asp?Symbol=fsl Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is a global semiconductor company focused on providing embedded processing and connectivity products to large, high-growth markets. The Company provides products to the automotive, networking and wireless communications industries. Freescale offers families of embedded processors, which provide the basic intelligence for electronic devices and can be programmed to address specific applications or functions, as well as a broad portfolio of complementary devices that provide connectivity between products, across networks and to real-world signals, such as sound, vibration and pressure. Through its embedded processors and complementary products, the Company is able to offer customers platform-level products. On October 6, 2003, the Company was created when Motorola announced its intention to separate its semiconductor operations into a separate company. In late 2004, the Company was spun off and Motorola ceased to be a controlling stockholder. http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/sigdev.asp?Symbol=fsl Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. and Motorola Announce Pricing of Initial Public Offering and Debt Offering July 16, 2004 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. and its parent company, Motorola, Inc. announced the initial public offering of 121,621,622 shares of Freescale Semiconductor Class A common stock at a price of $13.00 per share, for a total offering of $1.58 billion. Freescale Semiconductor's Class A common stock will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "FSL." Freescale Semiconductor has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to 18,243,243 additional Class A common shares at the initial public offering price. The global coordinator for the initial public offering is Goldman, Sachs & Co. The joint book-running managers for the initial public offering are Goldman, Sachs & Co., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. Freescale Semiconductor also announced the offering of senior debt securities with an aggregate principal amount of $1.25 billion. The debt securities consist of $400 million floating rate notes due 2009, $350 million 6.875% notes due 2011 and $500 million 7.125% notes due 2014. Motorola Completes Separation of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. December 02, 2004 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. announced that it has completed the separation from Motorola, Inc. Motorola distributed to its shareholders .110415 of a share of Freescale Semiconductor Class B common stock for each outstanding share of Motorola common stock they owned as of the record date of November 26, 2004. Cash will be delivered in lieu of fractional share interests to Motorola shareholders entitled to receive less than one share of Freescale Semiconductor Class B common stock.
