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Hello everyone, a while ago several people discussed decent debugging facilities for legOS, possibly in the form of remote gdb support. Did work in this avenue progress to something faintly usable already? If not, what are the key problems? Ciao, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I'm not sure what the issues are, Markus. But I could have a look at it in the new year. The lack of debugger support in legOS was one of the main reasons behind my development of pbForth. That and the fact that you can (one day) host pbForth (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Sorry to digress, but I just wanted to ask a question: is "equal sign B 4" supposed to be a code for the apostrophe? (They're not translating to apostrophes on my viewer.) How then would you make other symbols? Does this code reference some (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) hello Markus, i´m still working on a (hopefully) portable, robust version of linux LNP, that allows multiple client tasks or threads on the PC to communicate with one ore more RCX´s simultanously via one tower, ( one of them could be gdb, in (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) It is MIME encoding for non-ASCII characters. Cheers, Ben. -- SECURE HOSTING AT THE BUNKER! (URL) grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I doubt that's portable (and I'm a little surprised). (...) Only on sockets. (...) Don't be funny! Windows has its own threads, of course. Cheers, Ben. -- SECURE HOSTING AT THE BUNKER! (URL) grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I seem to recall there being a pretty good pthreads implementation for windows, and voila... (URL) Ferrari and Marco Beri also referred to a "native" pthreads library when they first released emuLegOS, but I can't actually find a link from (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Cool. Thanks. Ian (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) You can take for sure that I read this ng, and I'd bet on Marco too :-) Yes, I've not been posting for a while. I've been very busy organizing the Italian Lego Users Group website ((URL) and this took a great deal of my spare time. I still (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello Martin, pthreads and select sound fairly portable. And, as I mentioned before, there's a way of having Windows dispatch asynchronous serial events to programs, so work on porting would be fairly localized. The library approach has one serious (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | linux-lnp: select() vs. SIGIO ( was Re: Call for debugging support )
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(...) Uuh, there was a little bug in my test program. Once again, i learned i have to read gcc´s warnings carefully. On linux, select() suffers exactly the same thing as SIGIO. If the hardware fifo of the uart is enabled, and there is a stream of (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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