Re: [fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-11-07 Thread Michael Schnell
On 11/05/2012 09:28 PM, Sven Barth wrote: all the other younger children => arm, powerpc(64), sparc, mips(el), x86_64, jvm (, aarch64 ;) ) - most of them were "born" during the rewrite (not mentioned, but the children that are dead (at least so far) => alpha, itanium, vis) Is "aarch64

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-11-07 Thread Michael Schnell
On 11/06/2012 04:39 PM, Sven Barth wrote: * primitve procedural programs do definitely work This sounds very promising for me, as my planned application is not on a formal OS, but I'll need to build a wrapper to make the Pascal procedures run on my homebrew OS. I'll just need a decently work

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-11-06 Thread Sven Barth
Am 06.11.2012 09:13, schrieb Michael Schnell: On 11/05/2012 09:28 PM, Sven Barth wrote: the "young mage" => me :) Could you publish a state report on how powerful the actual magic has become ? If you mean how far the m68k port has come now, sure: * currently the only tested "environment" i

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-11-06 Thread Michael Schnell
On 11/05/2012 09:28 PM, Sven Barth wrote: the "young mage" => me :) Could you publish a state report on how powerful the actual magic has become ? Thanks, -Michael ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.or

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-11-05 Thread John Lee
I go back rather (too?) far...eg pre v1.0 - unfortunately I can't remember what the version was when I first downloaded fpk & tried to compile an fft - it crashed compiler - fixed by Jonas iirc. I'm so sad that I still use fpk for fpc directories - I'm kind'a sorry we changed that. I sort of got

[fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-11-05 Thread Sven Barth
On 18.10.2012 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 reconstruct the ca

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-23 Thread Max Vlasov
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd < markmll.fpc-de...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: > > Yes, a IIIe I scrounged. I believe there's a Pascal compiler for it but > I've never tried running it. > > I believe that the Palms were at one time popular as a "brain" for > mobile robot experimen

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Michael Schnell wrote: As my system obviously does not run Linux, I hope I might be able to provide some kind of infrastructure that allows to decently execute FPC generated files. (This maybe in fact is similar to what QEMU does - without the code-interpreter.) I've never really tried to ge

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Michael Schnell
On 10/19/2012 03:29 PM, Sven Barth wrote: It would be easier if you'd use the C code from within FPC code. I don't think I can easily do this, as there is a booting system called "Leash" provided by Innovasic, that finally runs the user code (everything is compiled to a single loadable/executab

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Sven Barth
Am 19.10.2012 15:15, schrieb Michael Schnell: On 10/19/2012 01:23 PM, Sven Barth wrote: The question is in how far the Fido is compatible with the Motorola CPUs. It's nearly 100% code-bit compatible with the 332 (aka CPU32), there are some additions to provide multi-threading and power-Managem

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Michael Schnell
On 10/19/2012 01:23 PM, Sven Barth wrote: The question is in how far the Fido is compatible with the Motorola CPUs. It's nearly 100% code-bit compatible with the 332 (aka CPU32), there are some additions to provide multi-threading and power-Management (e.g. the "trapx" and "sleep" instructions

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Sven Barth
Am 19.10.2012 13:10, schrieb Michael Schnell: > On 10/18/2012 05:58 PM, Sven Barth wrote: >> Pierre was right. M68k is BACK! > GREAT ! Thanks a lot. > > We just developed a board featuring a "Fido" chip by Innovasic. The > prototype is sitting on my desk since the beginning of this week. > > Fido

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Michael Schnell
On 10/18/2012 05:58 PM, Sven Barth wrote: Pierre was right. M68k is BACK! GREAT ! Thanks a lot. We just developed a board featuring a "Fido" chip by Innovasic. The prototype is sitting on my desk since the beginning of this week. Fido is a very nice upgrade to the Mortorola 68332 chip (har

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
waldo kitty wrote: On 10/18/2012 13:22, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Sven Barth wrote: But now the solution (I can't hold it back any longer myself ^^): Pierre was right. M68k is BACK! Nicely done. but I also plan to test Aranym (which emulates a M68040) I was impressed by it, unpretentious

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-18 Thread waldo kitty
On 10/18/2012 13:22, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Sven Barth wrote: But now the solution (I can't hold it back any longer myself ^^): Pierre was right. M68k is BACK! Nicely done. but I also plan to test Aranym (which emulates a M68040) I was impressed by it, unpretentious but effective. The o

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-18 Thread Sven Barth
Am 18.10.2012 22:20 schrieb "Florian Klaempfl" : > > Am 18.10.2012 22:16, schrieb Sven Barth: > >> On 18.10.2012 13:13, Sven Barth wrote: >>> >>> 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 >>> thi

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-18 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Am 18.10.2012 22:16, schrieb Sven Barth: On 18.10.2012 13:13, Sven Barth wrote: 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). I've now commited my change

[fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-18 Thread Sven Barth
On 18.10.2012 13:13, Sven Barth wrote: 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). I've now commited my changes, but currently the compiler for m68k can

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-18 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: But now the solution (I can't hold it back any longer myself ^^): Pierre was right. M68k is BACK! Nicely done. but I also plan to test Aranym (which emulates a M68040) I was impressed by it, unpretentious but effective. The only /real/ 68k I've got is a Palm on alarm clo

[fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

2012-10-18 Thread Sven Barth
Am 18.10.2012 13:13, schrieb Sven Barth: 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 FP