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Jim Jackson <jjackson@jnjackson.com> : (...) GCC-2.95.2 (...) --host=i586-pc-beos (...) This gave me the Idea to tell the configure that I was running a Linux box (instead of a bebox) It almost worked too. At the end of the make the machine says I (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) currently i believe there is some really subtle bug in malloc(), that shows up only under special circumstances. I experience similar problems with a fat kernel/application that disappear after adding one cputw(), making the binary a little (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Or worse, MacOS. I use and love my Macs, but lord they sure don't have much crash protection right now. I just wish there was a way to avoid having to reload the firmware every time it breaks, but I suppose that without an MMU, that's a bit (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Are you using gcc-2.95 or the earlier egcs? What's your host machine? I'm running an Intel Pentium (pre-MMX) and Linux and had to specify the additional parameter: --host=i586-pc-linux Not sure whether BeOS is supported where linux is specified (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I'm afraid that mysterious hangs may be a permanent part of the life of a legOS user- in almost any serious program that I have written, perfectly legitimate code- simple code!- has occasionally caused weird hangs and needed hard reboots. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I'm not so sure about my problem either. In fact, I'm getting some mysterious hangs much like you describe now that things are working. Maybe I'll try putting in some cputs or similar. -- "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I don't think this was my problem, since other, shorter programs would download fine, just not my 5k monster. -- "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." - William Shakespeare Mike Ash - (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi Bill, this page is captioned "Using and Porting GNU CC". It should give you an overview of the process. (URL) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I saw the same behavior some time ago when I worked on a pretty fat program (about 6KB compiled code). Sometimes it worked OK, then I removed my debug code (some cputs defined by macros) and it hanged miserably... I thought it was some kind of (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I think you may have had the same problem that I did, but if you did, you have answered the question yourself. (...) I had a bright light over the tower, and the batteries in the tower were running low. Redirect the light and install a new battery (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Does anyone have directions on how to compile GCC/LegOS. I am looking to get LegOS working on the BeOS but can not get the GCC cofigure command to work. The script ends explaining that my platform is not supported. I am not convinced that the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Well, it looks like I beat everybody to a solution. Except that I didn't. Oh, don't get me wrong, it works now and everything. The thing is, I don't know why. I spent some time today figuring out how to recompile the OS, and doing so. That didn't (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I always feel a bit stupid replying to myself, but I realized I didn't give exactly what happened when the program download failed. When I run dll, it successfully deletes the old program off of the RCX, and then sits there occasionally popping out (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'm having a bit of trouble with dll and I was hoping someone kind on this list might be able to help me out. Basically, I have a program that's grown to become fairly large and complex, and I can no longer download it to the RCX. There's one (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi there, after having made the legOS kernel about 2k fatter, i experience strange problems with dll. Uploading a fat application that mostly consists of an 8k initialised array works as before, i also can start the application. Trying to upload the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Very difficult, as far as I know. The ROM is on the same chip as the processor! -Kekoa (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) How difficult is remove the ROM chip and add a RAM one? (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Sorry Jose, it is NOT possible. The cybermaster firmware is in ROM and may not be overwritten in any way. Ciao Mario Web page: (URL) member page: (URL) member of ItLUG: (URL) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Has anybody try use some small version of legos in cybermaster? Is it posible? I'm thinking in a small program linked staticaly with legOS. (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello, I posted my 0.2.4 prerelease candidate in public CVS on legOS.sourceforge.net a minute ago. Sorry, there are no web pages available on sourceforge yet. You'll have to register with www.sourceforge.net to check out the sources, but that (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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