[BLACKBOX] Oberon-07 compiler for BlackBox

From: [at]} <Chris>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:19:04 +0930

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As part of my ongoing 'Microbe' (i.e. Oberon for ARM-based Microcontrollers)
project I am in the process of implementing a simulator (note - NOT an
emulator) on BlackBox so I can do preliminary application-level testing on a
Windows system instead of the target ARM hardware.

The first stage of the simulator involved adapting the BB 1.6 Component
Pascal compiler to process the Oberon-07 language as used by Niklaus Wirth's
native ARM compiler to produce programs that will run in BB.

If there is sufficient interest shown in this BB Oberon-07 compiler I'll put
the effort into making a test version available to members of this mailing
list.

If you are not familiar with Oberon-07 the introduction to "Differences
between Oberon-07 and Oberon" by Niklaus Wirth, 8.8.2007 / 17.12.2007 says:

"Oberon-07 is a revision of the original language Oberon as defined in
1988/1990. It is accepted by the compiler recently completed for the ARM
processor. Most changes in the language might easily be called features of a
dialect. However, there are a few that merit a stronger distinction, because
they should be considered as permanent, and as corrections of unsatisfactory
properties
of the original Oberon. These are the elimination of the loop statement,
function result specification, array assignments, constant parameters, and
read-only import of variables. All changes were made in the interest of
regularity, simplicity, completeness, and wellstructuredness."

Additional detailed documentation of the language and the ARM compiler is on
the Oberon 2006-2008 page:

http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Articles/OberonARM/OberonARM.html

Regards,

Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/cp

 

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