Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-12-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: What's the Programmer's Workbench? Shell, assemblers and so on according to Wikipedia- I'll know more when I've got it installed. Basically, all the stuff that Apple has always sworn their customers didn't need. At one

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-12-08 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: > > > > What's the Programmer's Workbench? > > Shell, assemblers and so on according to Wikipedia- I'll know more when > I've got it installed. Basically, all the stuff that Apple has always > sworn their customers didn't need. At one time it had

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-12-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: Didn't you wrote on the Lazarus list that you don't want to get sidetracked? :P Yes, but the boss is less likely to read this one :-) Besides which, finding that dirt-cheap hardware was actually a useful substitute for stuff which wasn't easy to source might actually be use

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-12-08 Thread Sven Barth
On 08.12.2012 19:12, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Sven Barth wrote: On 08.12.2012 17:47, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Sven Barth wrote: On 08.12.2012 11:42, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Sven Barth wrote: Am 19.10.2012 15:53, schrieb Marco van de Voort: In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-12-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: On 08.12.2012 17:47, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Sven Barth wrote: On 08.12.2012 11:42, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Sven Barth wrote: Am 19.10.2012 15:53, schrieb Marco van de Voort: In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: 68K is alive thanks to Coldfire etc. Well. I

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-12-08 Thread Sven Barth
On 08.12.2012 17:47, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Sven Barth wrote: On 08.12.2012 11:42, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Sven Barth wrote: Am 19.10.2012 15:53, schrieb Marco van de Voort: In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: 68K is alive thanks to Coldfire etc. Well. I would like to run i

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-12-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: On 08.12.2012 11:42, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Sven Barth wrote: Am 19.10.2012 15:53, schrieb Marco van de Voort: In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: 68K is alive thanks to Coldfire etc. Well. I would like to run it on the real thing. 68040/40 the same one as

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-12-08 Thread Sven Barth
On 08.12.2012 11:42, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Sven Barth wrote: Am 19.10.2012 15:53, schrieb Marco van de Voort: In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: 68K is alive thanks to Coldfire etc. Well. I would like to run it on the real thing. 68040/40 the same one as 1.0.x did :-) Do y

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-12-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: Am 19.10.2012 15:53, schrieb Marco van de Voort: In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: 68K is alive thanks to Coldfire etc. Well. I would like to run it on the real thing. 68040/40 the same one as 1.0.x did :-) Do you have a system with such a CPU? If so it woul

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Jonas Maebe wrote: On 19 Oct 2012, at 15:24, Sven Barth wrote: But I don't know what state Vis is in especially since I don't know what VM it does use exactly. That port was started by Carl-Eric Codere, and afaik VIS was a "Virtual Instruction Set" (= VIS) he invented himself. That I didn

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Michael Schnell
On 10/19/2012 04:22 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: MIPS is said to have lower licensing costs than ARM. Its also said to use less die space than ARM, but provide a lower performance/clock relation. Besides the already mentioned implementations, multiple dedicated chips, and the rather univer

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: 68K is alive thanks to Coldfire etc. Well. I would like to run it on the real thing. 68040/40 the same one as 1.0.x did :-) As I said the other day, having real hardware available is a big incentive to firing somethi

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: > >> 68K is alive thanks to Coldfire etc. > > > > Well. I would like to run it on the real thing. 68040/40 the same one as > > 1.0.x did :-) > > Do you have a system with such a CPU? If so it would be nice - if time > permits - if you could test a bit. I

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: > > make it a closed system for their turnkey products. MIPS is alive, > > courtesy of the Chinese who- I'm told- are now shipping good-value kit. > > 68K is alive thanks to Coldfire etc. IA-64 is alive but on life-support. > > IBM mainframes are alive, tha

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Sven Barth
Am 19.10.2012 15:53, schrieb Marco van de Voort: In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: 68K is alive thanks to Coldfire etc. Well. I would like to run it on the real thing. 68040/40 the same one as 1.0.x did :-) Do you have a system with such a CPU? If so it would be nice - if time

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Sven Barth
Am 19.10.2012 15:47, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: Sven Barth wrote: To my surprise I've got an Alpha system, but my understanding is that nobody's making silicon any more. Since Chinese manufacturers appear to have settled on MIPS as their non-x86 of choice, I don't see much future for it. That

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: > 68K is alive thanks to Coldfire etc. Well. I would like to run it on the real thing. 68040/40 the same one as 1.0.x did :-) ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepas

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: To my surprise I've got an Alpha system, but my understanding is that nobody's making silicon any more. Since Chinese manufacturers appear to have settled on MIPS as their non-x86 of choice, I don't see much future for it. That nobody is producing Alpha (or Alpha-like) chips

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Sven Barth
Am 19.10.2012 15:46, schrieb Jonas Maebe: On 19 Oct 2012, at 15:24, Sven Barth wrote: But I don't know what state Vis is in especially since I don't know what VM it does use exactly. That port was started by Carl-Eric Codere, and afaik VIS was a "Virtual Instruction Set" (= VIS) he invente

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 19 Oct 2012, at 15:24, Sven Barth wrote: > But I don't know what state Vis is in especially since I don't know what VM > it does use exactly. That port was started by Carl-Eric Codere, and afaik VIS was a "Virtual Instruction Set" (= VIS) he invented himself. Jonas

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Sven Barth
Am 19.10.2012 15:13, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: Sven Barth wrote: [This should have gone to the list, instead of Florian directly] On 18.10.2012 20:55, Florian Klämpfl wrote: > Am 18.10.2012 13:24, schrieb Pierre Free Pascal: >> Are you resurrecting m68k port? >> >> Just a guess, of cours

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Michael Schnell
On 10/19/2012 03:16 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: You're wrong ;-) I do like this fact :-) :-) :-) . -Michael ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Michael Schnell wrote: On 10/19/2012 02:34 PM, Sven Barth wrote: How do you mean that? From what I read in the forum I understand that someone is really interested and maybe working on it, but it's not yet usable out of the box. Am I wrong ? You're wrong ;-) -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markML

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: > >> > > > > From what I read in the forum I understand that someone is really > > interested and maybe working on it, but it's not yet usable out of the > > box. Am I wrong ? > > It runs enough that we already have automatic test results for MIPS and >

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Michael Schnell
On 10/19/2012 03:06 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: It looked pretty darned good when I was running it under Qemu two days ago. Nice ! good to know... -Michael ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailm

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: [This should have gone to the list, instead of Florian directly] On 18.10.2012 20:55, Florian Klämpfl wrote: > Am 18.10.2012 13:24, schrieb Pierre Free Pascal: >> Are you resurrecting m68k port? >> >> Just a guess, of course... > > Too late, but it would have been my gu

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Michael Schnell
On 10/19/2012 03:01 PM, Sven Barth wrote: It runs enough that we already have automatic test results for MIPS and MIPSel Great ! I will check it once I will get a prototype with a PIC32 (supposedly not before 2014). -Michael ___ fpc-devel mailli

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Michael Schnell wrote: On 10/19/2012 02:10 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Pray tell. AFAIK, MIPS has not completely seen the light of day. I fell this would be a really interesting Architecture, as e.g. Microchip adopted it for PIC32 and they are aggressively developing more and more chips o

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Sven Barth
Am 19.10.2012 14:46, schrieb Michael Schnell: On 10/19/2012 02:34 PM, Sven Barth wrote: How do you mean that? From what I read in the forum I understand that someone is really interested and maybe working on it, but it's not yet usable out of the box. Am I wrong ? It runs enough that we a

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Michael Schnell
On 10/19/2012 02:34 PM, Sven Barth wrote: How do you mean that? From what I read in the forum I understand that someone is really interested and maybe working on it, but it's not yet usable out of the box. Am I wrong ? -Michael ___ fpc-devel mai

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Sven Barth
Am 19.10.2012 14:24, schrieb Michael Schnell: On 10/19/2012 02:10 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Pray tell. AFAIK, MIPS has not completely seen the light of day. How do you mean that? Regards, Sven ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepa

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Michael Schnell
On 10/19/2012 02:10 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Pray tell. AFAIK, MIPS has not completely seen the light of day. I fell this would be a really interesting Architecture, as e.g. Microchip adopted it for PIC32 and they are aggressively developing more and more chips on that base. I heard abo

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Sven Barth
[This should have gone to the list, instead of Florian directly] On 18.10.2012 20:55, Florian Klämpfl wrote: > Am 18.10.2012 13:24, schrieb Pierre Free Pascal: >> Are you resurrecting m68k port? >> >> Just a guess, of course... > > Too late, but it would have been my guess as well. The tale mis

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Florian Klämpfl wrote: Am 18.10.2012 13:24, schrieb Pierre Free Pascal: Are you resurrecting m68k port? Just a guess, of course... Too late, but it would have been my guess as well. The tale misses only the very sad part about the two children who never made it to life ;( Pray tell. One w

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-18 Thread waldo kitty
On 10/18/2012 07:13, Sven Barth wrote: So... now I'm curious what you think I have worked on and I'm also curious whether someone can fully "decipher" that little story. :) i don't konw, specifically, of what you speak but the story has been told many times since opensource reared its head...

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-18 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 18.10.2012 13:24, schrieb Pierre Free Pascal: > Are you resurrecting m68k port? > > Just a guess, of course... Too late, but it would have been my guess as well. The tale misses only the very sad part about the two children who never made it to life ;(

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-18 Thread Paul Ishenin
18.10.12, 21:29, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 18 Oct 2012, at 15:22, Tomas Hajny wrote: I'd guess for one of the left-overs from the 1.0 -> 2.0 transition (on the compiler side). Since I've never been involved so deeply in the compiler area, I can't remember the topic well, but I can remember repeate

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-18 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 18 Oct 2012, at 15:22, Tomas Hajny wrote: > I'd guess for one of the left-overs from the 1.0 -> 2.0 transition (on the > compiler side). Since I've never been involved so deeply in the compiler > area, I can't remember the topic well, but I can remember repeated > references to a need for rewr

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-18 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Thu, October 18, 2012 13:57, Jonas Maebe wrote: > On 18 Oct 2012, at 13:13, Sven Barth wrote: > >> Once upon a time there was a small kingdom ruled by a kind king. The . . >> again. The young mage continued to heal her and they all lived happily >> ever after. > > I guess it's about one of the

RE: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-18 Thread Zilvinas Ledas
Is it about fpc and unit loading? ;) Regards, Zilvinas Ledas___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-18 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 18 Oct 2012, at 13:13, Sven Barth wrote: > Once upon a time there was a small kingdom ruled by a kind king. The king had > two daughters and more children were planned to come. But the king had > already problems to find approbiate rooms for his second child. So he ordered > his mages to re

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-18 Thread Michael Schnell
On 10/18/2012 01:35 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: Crutches=libc unit obviously But Wine stuff dumped :) -Michael ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-18 Thread Michael Schnell
On 10/18/2012 01:24 PM, Pierre Free Pascal wrote: Are you resurrecting m68k port? PLEEEAAASE ! -Michael ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-18 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: > Once upon a time there was a small kingdom ruled by a kind king. The > king had two daughters and more children were planned to come. But the > king had already problems to find approbiate rooms for his second child. King=Borland children=Delphi and K

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-18 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Sven Barth wrote: Hello together! Over the past weeks I've spent some time on getting something to work in FPC and now I'm about to commit this either this evening or at least this weekend (depending on the time I have). Now I thought that I'd make a little test to see

RE: [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-18 Thread Pierre Free Pascal
FPC developers' list > Objet : [fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale > > Hello together! > > Over the past weeks I've spent some time on getting something to work in > FPC and now I'm about to commit this either this evening or at least > this weekend (depending on

[fpc-devel] FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-18 Thread Sven Barth
Hello together! Over the past weeks I've spent some time on getting something to work in FPC and now I'm about to commit this either this evening or at least this weekend (depending on the time I have). Now I thought that I'd make a little test to see how good you know FPC and thus I've writte