On 9 Nov 2004, at 5:14 pm, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
PalmOS would probably be right out. :-)
I think you are belittling the work done to get R running on as wide a range of platforms as it does.
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I only saw a bit of excessive pessimism in that remark.
Yes, no disrespect was intended at all. Porting to PalmOS is quite a different kettle of fish compared to porting between (say) Windows and UNIX, because the OS doesn't have a libc; if you use almost any standard C library function your binary becomes a huge (because it needs to be statically linked with the C library that comes with your cross compiler). A true PalmOS port of any piece of software often requires a lot of work to replace standard C library calls with the equivalents built into the machine. Someone may have created some sort of wrapper C library, but when I last wrote any software for Palm devices, such a thing did not exist.
Admittedly, that was about two years ago, when I wrote some stuff for PalmOS 4.
Tim
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