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Rich Thompson <richone@midsouth.rr.com> wrote in message news:FAvu5G.4Hw@lugnet.com... (...) This sounds like gcc isn't installed properly. cc1plus is the first stage of the compiler. Can you compile anything properly? alex (25 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I am delving into the world of Linux (I have abandoned BSD and Windows but keeping my Mac) and I am having trouble compiling NQC in Caldera's OpenLinux 2.2 for i386. A basic output of the errors I am seeing: gcc -c -O6 -pipe -m486 -Iplatform (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) NQC 1.3 is pretty minor... inline functions can be used before they are defined. I added abs() and sign() support. Technically they are not functions, but are operators with a function syntax (like sizeof in C). A couple new functions (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Can you give us a "press release" about what's new in 1.3? (...) Joel Shafer joel@connect.net (25 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Thanks - I had already noticed that and fixed it in the upcoming 1.3 release, which has been "ready to go" for about 3 weeks now. I just have to take the time to do all of the platform builds, update the web site, etc. Dave (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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In browsing the rcx.nqh file, I found that the SMODE_CELSIUS input mode constant is misspelled with a 'c' instead of an 's'. Jonathan (25 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: RcxCC Help!
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William: Do you have the official Mindstorms software loaded that came with the RCX? Most of the 3rd party programs need the main program loaded inorder for their program to run properly. Hope this helps... Best Regards, Patrick McLean William Ng (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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OH! i forgot i need to install the mindstorm software before i use RcxCC!! now it works, sorry guys. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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i downloaded the RcxCC version 2.2 and extracted it with winzip. when i try to run the RcxCC.EXE, my system say "Exception EOleSysError in module RcxCC.EXE at 00053AF9. Class not registered" does anyone know what it is and what can i do?? thanks in (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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In writing some sensor code yesterday/today (it's 6 am), I passed over the ROM sensor code at 14c0. The documentation has been put in the usual place. The rotation code is pretty simple: the expected state machine, with split points between the four (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) given (...) lego (...) [ stuff about lego/native collisions ] (...) of a (...) on (...) I was wondering, since people are considering using tags in the LNP frame to signify local to local messages, could we not also use this to "label" non (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) In my brief experimentation with rom_reset(), it does not actually clear the rom- rather it only starts the program over again (in main()). Is this intentional? I get this behavior when calling it from main- when calling it from within another (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) This seems the best approach to me too. My problem is I don't know if I am able to do such a thing :-) (...) I know your site and know you've done a LOT of hard work to understand and explain both RCX hardware and original firmware code. Mario (25 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) That's what I am doing. Markus. (25 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Hmm.. with a little hacking you could certainly detect logic errors. The main problem I think would be writing alternative C-Functions for the H8 assembler, which makes up legOS itself. You'd also need to create a simulator engine for legOS to (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) The first instruction (at 03ae) places the stack in on-chip memory, assuming RAME bit of SYSCR is at its initial value of 1. Why not make rom_reset() disable interrupts, then do its thing? That would be the safest thing to do. -Kekoa (25 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Well, if rom_reset() gets invoked near the end of your time slice, ROM has no time to reset the OCIA IRQ vector before the next timer tick. I'm not certain about the order in which ROM sets up data areas and IRQ vectors. legOS freely allocates (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Assuming packets without large internal gaps, we could employ a timeout to wait for a packet transmission of unknown protocol type to end. At 2400 bps with 8E1 (LEGO, isn't it?), one data byte has 11 bits, so a space of 1.5*11/2400 s should be (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Rotation sensor bug found
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(...) Excellent idea. This would yield the default settings dead-on. (...) Scaling isn't about the final output. The final output is already in the standard format. Scaling is about shifting the raw sensor values displayed by the firmware six digits (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Yes this will be a datagram only protocol for the time being. The LNP will allow us to do things like debugging and remote control. I have also invisioned something like a "shell" running on the legOS that you could either "telnet" in to or (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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