asxxxx target support for sdcc?

[Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk at spth dot de>]

Hello,

the small device C compiler (sdcc) is a free C compiler targeting
various 8-bit architectures.
It currently has a fork of GNU binutils in its source tree. AFAIK, sdcc
only uses ar, nm and ranlib, and the only substantial difference to GNU
binutils is that the fork has removed support for many targets and has
added support for an asxxxx target in bfd.
sdcc uses asxxxx-flavor assemblers and linkers (see also asxxxx
upstream: http://shop-pdp.net/ashtml/asxdoc.htm).

This look like unnecessary code duplication to me. Would it be possible
to get the asxxxx-flavor target support accepted upstream, so sdcc could
use GNU binutils instead of the fork? If yes, what would have to be done?

Philipp

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