(unknown charset) Re: [BLACKBOX] Mobile-device development

From: (unknown charset) Oleg N. Cher <"Oleg>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:13:38 +0200

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Thanks, Douglas.

I see BlackBox as a good host system for realization
system for crossplatform development. Under it,
we can will use not only Oberon-2 and Component Pascal,
but all of languages that we will need.
First goal I would like to see universal assembler
under BlackBox, which can be used for developing
low-level modules. Writing these modules in assembler
is more comprehensible than write directly in machine code.

I've started project named EcoAsm (Extensible
Component-Oriented Assembler) under BlackBox.
Goal of this project is front-end for assembler,
and plugable back-ends for translating assembler-specific
mnemonics for different processors.

Planned supporting such targets:

  Intel 80386+ (32 bit)
  Zilog Z80
  Intel 80x86 (16 bit)
  J2me bytecode (maybe)

Difficulty of this project is "object file format".
I'm not sure that BlackBox's .ocf will be enough for this idea.

P.S. Btw, is another method for J2me development in Oberon-2.
We can use XDS to translating Oberon-2 source to language C,
and compiling it by GCC to MIPS binaries.

Check project Cibyl-mips2java:

cibyl-mips2java compiler (binary rewriter) that is provided
with Cibyl. It translates MIPS binaries compiled with GCC
into Java bytecode assembly.
http://code.google.com/p/cibyl/

(But it does not solve a problem of libraries).

Imho the Oberon-2 is best of all compilable programming languages now.
But why it known and used so little - a riddle. I am afraid, the Oberon-2
needs the powerful industrial centre coordinating one big standard
for crossplatform compiler _and libraries_. Enthusiasts prefer to make
the small extensions of Oberon-2 under the specific targets and goals.
It sprays forces of and so too small Oberon community.
                        

Oleg N. Cher,
Colossoft Research.
allot{([at]})nowhere.xy
2008-02-17

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