Re: [fpc-pascal] arm big endian questions and info

2007-02-26 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 26/02/07, Jonas Maebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 26 feb 2007, at 15:23, Henry Vermaak wrote: > /home/hcv/freepascal/latest/compiler/ppcrossarm -Ur -Parm > -XParmbe-linux- -Xc -Xr -Ur -Xs -O1r -n -Fi../inc -Fi../arm -Fi../unix > -Fiarm -FE. -FU/home/hcv/freepascal/latest/rtl/units/arm-linu

Re: [fpc-pascal] arm big endian questions and info

2007-02-26 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 26 feb 2007, at 15:23, Henry Vermaak wrote: /home/hcv/freepascal/latest/compiler/ppcrossarm -Ur -Parm -XParmbe-linux- -Xc -Xr -Ur -Xs -O1r -n -Fi../inc -Fi../arm -Fi../unix -Fiarm -FE. -FU/home/hcv/freepascal/latest/rtl/units/arm-linux -darm -dRELEASE -Fi../objpas/sysutils ../unix/sysutils.

Re: [fpc-pascal] arm big endian questions and info

2007-02-26 Thread Henry Vermaak
thanks, i'll try this. henry with latest fpc svn i try 'make distclean all CPU_TARGET=arm BINUTILSPREFIX=armbe-linux-' and get this (after a while): /home/hcv/freepascal/latest/compiler/ppcrossarm -Ur -Parm -XParmbe-linux- -Xc -Xr -Ur -Xs -O1r -n -Fi../inc -Fi../arm -Fi../unix -Fiarm -FE. -F

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal is alive!!??

2007-02-26 Thread Vinzent Hoefler
On Monday 26 February 2007 12:07, Matt Emson wrote: > > Well, let's do the standard: > > > > Pascal: > > > >program > > Hello_World; > > > >begin > > WriteLn ('Hello world.'); > >end. > > Class: What does program mean? "That this unit is supposed to be a program. (Still, yo

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal is alive!!??

2007-02-26 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 26 feb 2007, at 13:07, Matt Emson wrote: Class: What does program mean? Moderator: can you all please take language comparison discussions to fpc-other? Thanks. Jonas FPC Mailing lists admin ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.free

Re: [fpc-pascal] arm big endian questions and info

2007-02-26 Thread Henry Vermaak
FPC cannot use libc for fpu emulation. > also, is the "SOFT" option complete in latest fpc? this would > probably save me lots of trouble. Yes, softfpu should work on ARM. Daniël thanks, i'll try this. henry ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] arm big endian questions and info

2007-02-26 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Mon, 26 Feb 2007, schreef Henry Vermaak: > hi all > > i managed to build a ppcarm (msb) over the last couple of days. there > were a couple of problems, most problematic of which were that the > compiler (ppccrossarm at that stage) seemed to go into a weird "state" > when trying to compile

[fpc-pascal] arm big endian questions and info

2007-02-26 Thread Henry Vermaak
hi all i managed to build a ppcarm (msb) over the last couple of days. there were a couple of problems, most problematic of which were that the compiler (ppccrossarm at that stage) seemed to go into a weird "state" when trying to compile the gtk and gtk2 packages (can't remember specific files n

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal is alive!!??

2007-02-26 Thread Matt Emson
> Well, let's do the standard: > > Pascal: > >program > Hello_World; > >begin > WriteLn ('Hello world.'); >end. Class: What does program mean? Does the name matter? Does it have to be the same as the executable? Why is there a colon at the end of the line - isn't the begin

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal is alive!!??

2007-02-26 Thread Matt Emson
> > [explaining classes is not really harder than program/unit] > I disagree with this part. Sure, you will get questions of about > programs/units, but the purpose of the keywords belonging to them is way > easier to explain than public, static and class. To a complete novice, there's not really

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal is alive!!??

2007-02-26 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Mon, 26 Feb 2007, schreef Matt Emson: > > Read the draft here and tell me what you think of it and whether you > > have something to add: > > [explaining classes is not really harder than program/unit] I disagree with this part. Sure, you will get questions of about programs/units, but th

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal is alive!!??

2007-02-26 Thread Vinzent Hoefler
On Monday 26 February 2007 10:13, Matt Emson wrote: > I had a fairly quick glance through; I think you missed the point. > Most of your arguments point to something like VB3, not Pascal, ADA > or C. You mention the syntax of the Java class - Pacal and ADA are > both more complicated. Well, let's

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal is alive!!??

2007-02-26 Thread Matt Emson
> Most of your arguments point to something like VB3 To clarify, I mean in "language complexity". In VB 3, one could (with little extra knowledge) code in BASIC quite quickly. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.free

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal is alive!!??

2007-02-26 Thread Matt Emson
> Read the draft here and tell me what you think of it and whether you > have something to add: I had a fairly quick glance through; I think you missed the point. Most of your arguments point to something like VB3, not Pascal, ADA or C. You mention the syntax of the Java class - Pacal and ADA are