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

Re: [fpc-devel] Is target mips-embedded possible / planned?

2013-02-15 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/15/2013 02:46 AM, Michel Catudal wrote: I am asking because modern PIC32MX Controllers from Microchip are mips based, I somehow prefer arm-microcontrollers but when you want to build something small and cheap the Microchip controllers still have an advantage... Same here. AFAIK

Re: [fpc-devel] Is target mips-embedded possible / planned?

2013-02-15 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Michael Schnell said: Same here. AFAIK Microchip is planning PIC32 variants with even more internal RAM and ROM. Same would be very handy for our (and others) embedded controllers. Pity that they have a five stage pipeline though. Though the 16-bit lines now have

Re: [fpc-devel] Is target mips-embedded possible / planned?

2013-02-15 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/15/2013 10:14 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote: Pity that they have a five stage pipeline though. Though the 16-bit lines now have more stalls too (the e series is further away from the 1 clock one 1 instruction principle than the f was). I suppose the design goal was using as little hardware

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

2013-02-15 Thread Sven Barth
Am 15.02.2013 08:39 schrieb Mike Salish m...@avantisys.com: 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

[fpc-devel] fpc 2.7.1 segfault in writestr?

2013-02-15 Thread Martin
revision 23621 Win 32 / Vista RTL build with OPT=-gl -gw -godwarfsets -O-1 compiler build with OPT=-gl -O3 -Or -CpPENTIUMM -OpPENTIUMM Lazarus -WC -gh -Criot -gw2 -godwarfsets -O-1 -gt The following line crashes with SigSegV writestr(BaseConf, AType,':', ' IMode=',