Am 08.08.2011 12:49, schrieb John Clymer: > Kicking it around in the back of my head at work today... > > I tried doing a compile to assembly language for the stellaris - and it > choked giving the error from t_embed.pas. The error comes from the > portion of the program trying to generate a linker script. > > Looking at t_embed.pas, it looks like every single flavor of ARM > controller will require it's own subsection of the case() statement. > This can easily get long and ugly. As the only thing that changes > between most of the arm variants is the memory layout - why not provide > a generic "stellaris" switch - with reads in a text file containing the > memory map and stack top (the rest of the link file remains the same for > all variants of ARM) ? > > This way - switching to a new variant of stellaris only requires > tweaking a memory map file - rather than a re-build and patch of > t_embed.pas ? For that matter - entirely foreign Cortex M3 parts could > be easily supported without requiring changes to the compiler. > > Just pondering how to make it easier and more flexible ...
Yes, this can be done. However, somebody who knows enough about a certain controller family must do this. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
