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TG9541 / 8051-eForth

8051 eForth retargeting for modern MCS-51 based µCs

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Transition to the SDCC tool chain #1

Open TG9541 opened 2 years ago

TG9541 commented 2 years ago

A recent version of the SDCC tool chain shall be used for building 8051-eForth code.

Rationale:

AVCASE51 is commercial legacy software - dealing with "abandonware" is risky
SDCC isn't perfect but free and it's maintained by an active community
SDCC is GPL but this doesn't appear to be in conflict with the MIT license of this code.
SDCC 8051 run-time library won't be needed (but that's possibly uncritical due to "GPL+LE")
the uCsim simulator has been applied for testing to STM8 eForth - this approach may also work for 8051-eForth