Re: [BLACKBOX] Ofront released as open source under a FreeBSD-style license

From: [at]} <Norayr>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:24:37 +0400

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Hey, Oleg.
Before this I was mostly concentrating on oo2c.
For example, I have published nmos6502 port of oo2c (via cc65) but not the Ofront version. http://sourceforge.net/projects/nmos6502-oo2c/
nmos6502 is the processor used in the Nintendo, Apple][ and Oric Atmos (:
I've also dived into H2O sources in order to find out how hard would it be to modify it to work with Ofront.
However because of the previous Ofront license I didn't have much inspiration to work.
I've also did some work to bring Ulm's Oberon library to oo2c. I would like to try to do the same with Ofront.
There may be a problem to link GPL code to FreeBSD code though.

What is the minimal size of the binary you get for 8080?
Was you able to cut out the garbage collector in order to reduce the size of the resulting binary?
Ah, I must probably go by the link and try it myself.

I'll write you an email, it's interesting to communicate as were engaged in the similar projects.

Norayr


On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:03:31 +0300
"Oleg N. Cher" <stef{([at]})nowhere.xy

> Dear mr. Josef!
>
> You're a great man! Thank you for the liberalisation of my favourite
> "O2-to-C" translator. :)
>
> I hope this step will give push to appearance in public domain
> "Component Pascal-to-C"
> translator (What will be the good thing for translate BlackBox to
> non-intel architectures.
> Btw, I propose to use SDL as GUI base for that translation. Bindings is
> available on web-site
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/sdl-for-oberon/ )
>
> Next step which I would like to see that supporting Ofront in H2O tool
> by Stewart Greenhill.
> If you don't know, it is very useful utility to translate C headers to
> Component Pascal
> interfaces (bindings). Btw, I would like to thanks mr. Bernhard Treutwein -
> for useful posts. This person came on Russian-speaking forum OperonCore
> simply
> to tell about the discovery - the utility H2O. The low bow.
>
> I have some experience working with H2O, have found some bugs and I
> began to write
> small notice about this. It's in Russian and may be downloaded here:
>
> http://zx.oberon2.ru/lib/Oleg-N-Cher/exp_h2cp.zip
>
> Use Google Translator for translation it to other languages, if you
> interested.
>
> I should like to ask mr. Bernhard Treutwein thank mr. Stewart Greenhill
> for all.
> And ask him about his plans to fix the bugs found by me, or exdends H2O
> functionality
> (Liberated Ofront is very good candidate to support it in the utility!).
> Maybe he will like the idea to release H2O binaries for Windows on
> Helmut Zinn's web-site
> (for BlackBox users).
>
>
> Folks, prof. Josef Templ has inspired me to use Ofront as a subsystem
> for XDev -
> my building of BlackBox (specially formed for cross-language and
> cross-platform
> development). Now supported only one target platform - retro-computer
> Sinclair ZX Spectrum (Z80, 48Kb RAM). I want to support other platforms
> too, of course.
>
> XDev/ZXDev
> ==========
> Download: https://github.com/Oleg-N-Cher/BB-XDev/zipball/master
> Version control: https://github.com/Oleg-N-Cher/BB-XDev
> Doc (mainly in Russian): ZXDev/Docu
>
> If I will find interested English-speaking people, I'll make English
> version of it.
>
> I plan to modify the Ofront for accompaniment several useful
> possibilities for
> 8-bit and 16-bit CPUs - for first, experimental supporting of the
> unsigned data types.
> Unsigned arithmetic will be more efficient for some retro-computers and
> microcontrollers.
>
> Mr. Josef, now I experiment with addition to Ofront the support of
> unsigned types.
> After getting the first results, I'll write you e-mail. Thank you very
> much again!
>
> --
> Oleg N. Cher
> http://zx.oberon2.ru/
>
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