(unknown charset) Re: [BLACKBOX] Linux BB and CP (again)

From: (unknown charset) [at]} <Alexander>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:44:38 +0400

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Hello!

> My dream is Embedded Component Pascal targeting Linux and producing both
> user-mode and kernel-mode executables for non-Intel high performance
> processors such as Analog Devices Blackfin, Texas Instruments Keystone,
> high-end ARM as found in Xilinx Zynq, and soft cores such as Microblaze.
>
> Implementing native compilers for a wide range of CPUs would be
> impractical due to abundance of silicon anomalies present in virtually all
> embedded CPUs. The only practical implementation would be through the gcc
> that is maintained by the CPU manufactures. They take care of the
> anomalies and make sure that gcc delivers binaries that run on various
> "steppings" of their CPUs.

  It looks like a perfect niche for the OO2C compiler, which essentially
  translates Oberon-2 to optimized ANSI C, and then uses GCC to generate
  the binaries. GCC settings can be manipulated to target various platforms,
  optimizations, etc.

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