At 09:48 PM 12/30/00 +, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >At 01:05 PM 12/29/00 +, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> >>Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> >
> >> >I'm reasonably certain that all platforms that perl will ultimately
> run on
> >> >can mus
At 08:05 PM 12/30/00 -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>
> > Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > >Anyone know of a good bigint/bigfloat library whose terms are such
> that we
> > >can just snag the source and use it in perl?
> >
> > There wa
> Yeak, I know a lot of the old 8 and 16 bit chips are in use as control
> devices places. Those are the ones I'm thinking about. (Not that hard, but
> I don't want to rule them out needlessly)
Yeah! I want to dust off my trusty old Z80 boxes :-)
On a more serious note: recently a company ann
> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DS> That's good. Though do either of them have 16-bit data busses?
>> DSPs are more messy.
DS> That's probably a bit too specialized a piece of hardware to worry
DS> about. Unlss things have changed lately, they're not really
DS>
> maybe some of us should go to an rtos/embedded show and ask around "how
> often is perl requested?"
Perl already exists for QNX, though of course QNX most often runs on x86s.
Some might consider EPOC to be an embedded OS (running on ARMs). But I
have had Perl requested for VxWorks (and of cour
> "JH" == Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> maybe some of us should go to an rtos/embedded show and ask around "how
>> often is perl requested?"
JH> Perl already exists for QNX, though of course QNX most often runs on x86s.
JH> Some might consider EPOC to be an embedde
> JH> An OS problem and a build environment (cross-compilation, yuk)
> JH> problem. I once managed to compile miniperl (5.005) for Chorus.
> JH> I'm about to unearth the cross-compilation changes I had to make to
> JH> get that working. (You thought Configure was hairy enough already?
>
> "JH" == Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JH> An OS problem and a build environment (cross-compilation, yuk)
JH> problem. I once managed to compile miniperl (5.005) for Chorus.
JH> I'm about to unearth the cross-compilation changes I had to make to
JH> get that working.
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >That's fine. I was thinking of smaller processors that might be used in
>> >embedded apps and such. (I'm also not sure what's the most efficient
>> >integer representation on things like the ARM microprocessors are)
>>
>>ARM7/ARM9 are both 32-bit
>>MIPS
