Re: [fpc-devel] FPC for Coldfire and 68K derivatives

2013-02-18 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/15/2013 11:45 AM, Sven Barth wrote: Nevertheless I'm currently mostly working on Coldfire support. While this obviously is viable, I (understanding that the Coldfire ISA is a subset of CPU32), do hope that the final version is able to optionally work for both flavors (plus the "big" 68 K

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC for Coldfire and 68K derivatives

2013-02-18 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/14/2013 03:57 AM, Mike Salish wrote: At the moment the 68K versions still in production are all for control applications in embedded systems. These chips use the CPU32 and more recently the MCF5 Coldfire architecture. For MCF there are some sources of small and cheap demo boards (netg

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC for Coldfire and 68K derivatives

2013-02-16 Thread Mike Salish
I will give that a try in the next week or two. Production deadlines prevent me from jumping on it right now. As far as fitting the compiled output to a generic RTOS embedded system it would seem to me that: Each Pascal main program is treated as a task/process that runs unto itself other th

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC for Coldfire and 68K derivatives

2013-02-15 Thread Sven Barth
Am 15.02.2013 08:39 schrieb "Mike Salish" : > > It was interesting to see renewed activity in the compiler for the 68K architecture. I've been using another old compiler, written in Pascal, for embedded development for many years and been wanting to give FPC a try. My existing compiler emits assemb

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC for Coldfire and 68K derivatives

2013-02-15 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/14/2013 03:57 AM, Mike Salish wrote: All that is missing is the 68K code generator and RTL and... a few more bits. AFAIK, The 68 K compiler is currently being worked on and already is able to do something useful. I have not heard about that project since some weeks, so I don't know t

[fpc-devel] FPC for Coldfire and 68K derivatives

2013-02-14 Thread Mike Salish
It was interesting to see renewed activity in the compiler for the 68K architecture. I've been using another old compiler, written in Pascal, for embedded development for many years and been wanting to give FPC a try. My existing compiler emits assembler for the 68K and CPU32 but lacks the feat