Paul Rubin wrote: > Philippe Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Why are you avoiding naming the chip and its compiler? >> >> I must disagree on that one: There are many threads on this site where >> people just have fun talking algorithm. I'm not an algo. expert and I >> know there are many here. > > This is just like the very common situation here and on sci.crypt, > where a person has a programming or algorithm question and gets asked > what the application is, and when they answer, it turns out that what > they need is not anything like what they thought they needed. > >> on one device, the processor in an 8-bit arm and the X-compiler is made >> by epson >> >> on the other device, the processor is unknown to me and the environment >> is a subset of java made for smartcards called javacard. > > ???? You mean ARM?? There is no such thing as an 8-bit ARM; they are > 32-bit cpu's that (in some models) support a 16-bit instruction > format. > > Javacard is an interpreter that runs in many 8-bit processors. The > interpreter supports 32-bit arithmetic.
I checked the processor and it is an EPSON 8 bit (SC88 I think). If you check the javacard specs, you'll see that not all VM support 32 bits. Regards, Philipped -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
