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Re: NQC for Palm
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 4 Apr 2001 03:35:15 GMT
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Steve Baker <SJBAKER1@AIRMAILihatespam.NET>
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Dave Baum wrote:
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> In article <3ACA6077.70509@3dnature.com>, xenon@3dnature.com wrote:
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> > Well, I just got some bad news from Dave 'NQC' Baum.
> > Apparently he's a Palm developer, and he won't touch
> > the project, because of architectural limitations in
> > the Palm OS. Apparently NQC needs a lot more dynamically-
> > allocated memory than the PalmOS can handle.
Of course on my Agenda Palmtop - it took little more than
typing 'make' to port it. <smug grin>
> Also, just getting a baseline build with the 68K compiler targetting the
> Palm would be helpful.
So the Palm is big-endian? I didn't know that.
Won't that also cause problems for NQC porting...does NQC run on any
other big-endian machines?
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| (...) Yes - NQC is developed on a Mac so PowerPC big-endian is actually where most of the testing is done, but I don't recall ever running into an endian problem. One of the builds (for Mac MPW) targets 68K, but with slightly difference options than (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC for Palm
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| (...) I just did some measurements of heap usage for NQC, and it isn't quite as bad as I feared. Compiling a trivial program without including the standard API uses about 11K. If you include the standard API, this grows to about 64K. For a modest (...) (23 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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