It's probably not a lot of work for someone knowledgeable about ARM to
write a ``cpu.arm`` vocabulary. And I know that a prototype of one was
implemented at some point but not full featured. The cpu abstraction is
pretty okay given that it worked on x86 x86-64 and ppc.
On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 3:50 AM, Omar Torres <omartor...@omartorres.com.br>
wrote:
>
> Ok. Good to know. Thanks
>
> On 26 May 2017, at 16:40, cat <cat...@protonmail.ch> wrote:
>
> A Factor maintainer or core developer will answer in more detail but the
> short answer is no, for now at least.
>
> The long answer:
>
> Factor's virtual machine is compiled to native machine code for a target
> platform -- currently, the target platforms are Intel's 32- and 64-bit
> x86-based architectures on Windows, Linux and MacOS, and PowerPC on Linux.
>
> The compiler to build Factor (and subsequently build standalone Factor
> programs) is implemented using the cpu.architecture
> <http://docs.factorcode.org/content/vocab-cpu.architecture.html> and
> other cpu.* vocabularies, which unfortunately do not include ARM support,
> because nobody with sufficient experience has written it yet.
>
>
>
> Considering the timespans of Factor's minor version release cycle (4+
> years on the upcoming 0.98 I believe?), I wouldn't be surprised to see it
> written for 0.99 or even 1.0.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Factor-talk] Factor for ARM (Raspberry PI)
> Local Time: May 26, 2017 10:25 AM
> UTC Time: May 26, 2017 2:25 PM
> From: omartor...@omartorres.com.br
> To: factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know about Factor support for ARM Architecture (Raspberry
> PI)? Can i build factor on Raspbian OS?
>
> Tks in advance,
> Omar
>
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