If anybody can compile the above code,
would this person please upload his ppcarmnds.exe
somewhere, so i can use it? that would be great.
i can hack my way through, mixing pascal and assembler,
but it's like carrying a rock with me, when i'm trying to
win a marathon :D
Some further investigations
This code (I don't know what it does!) compiles fine:
[pascal]var
test: longint;
procedure MyAsmProc(); assembler;
asm
ldr r0,.Ltest
.Ltest:
.long test
end;
[/pascal]
Stated that I don't know arm assembly at all, are you sure that your calls are right?
In the last couple of hours I have written at least
250-300 lines of Pascal-Code to achieve what i want to do.
Now i can scrap them.
ALL OF THEM!
YOU, SIR... YOU...
... are the most BRILLIANT person EVER :D
How did you think of that??? WHY THE HELL DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT!! lol
thank you SO much! :DDDD
Actually, without you, i wouldn't even code all this stuff :D
OMFG! lol This is SO great! :DD
If you ever come to Austria/Vienna, you'll get a beer from me! :DD
Thank You Thank You Thank You!!! :DD
ps: no, i won't scrap them *g* i will at least finish what i've started and
then recode everything lol ... and yeah, i'm acting like a kid right now :DD
OMG lol
maybe i should stop all this and go sell flowers or something lol
i mean ... i am currently writing a dynamic code generator (this is really,
really easy, actually :D) but i totally surrender when i run into problems
like the above one lol
hey... say, can i help YOU in any way? :D
Of course you can help!
The biggest help could be to spread the world about free pascal for nds/gba, maybe releasing code snippets, tutorials, examples, complete apps/games and so on. I think that your emulator will be a good "business card" for fpc
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PS. I have added my previous answer to fpc community too, because it needs some "vitamines" in order to grow :lol: [/size]
i am sorry to probably dissapoint you, but i normally don't do these kind of things. i do not even have a homepage... never had one lol
i can, if i'm a bit more into the nds, write some optimization-tutorials (i am a clock-cycle-speed-freak) or something like that, provided there
is space where i can put them online. :D
besides, i am using pascal more and more as frame for assembler (because
it produces slow code), so my emulator wouldn't be any help *g* but
that's far from now and i am not the kind of guy who doesn't want to
give something back, so we will see on this one :)
what i have actually meant is, if i can help YOU in any way, ie go bug
hunting, optimize code, anything like that which helps you achieve your
goal, just tell me. i will help you as you are helping me to achieve mine.
but i am not "advertising" a "product", sorry :)
oh, btw, bug-hunting ... does this address you? ->
this line:
mla r0,r1,r2,r3
gives me: "Syntax error while trying to parse a shifter operand"
mla does a multiply+add. it multiplys r1 with r2, adds r3 and puts
everything into r0.
and it seems that the compiler does not recognize some opcodes like
lsl or ror, which should be known ...
does this address you?
edit: "fpc produces slow code" ... i hope nobody takes this personal,
in my opinion every compiler produces slow code, unless you write your
code in a way the compiler can handle it better ... which i do not do, as i
do not see any sense in doing that, because, as i think, one should know
his platform and how the cpu works, instead of relying on a compiler to do
the work for you. this is especially true on fixed platforms like the nds.
Bug hunting is a big help; thanks to your suggestion we have already resolved a couple of rtl related bugs.
I had some issues with lsl too, but I'm not too much in compiler code, so my suggestion is to report these bugs in Mantis bug tracker
did so. hope everything was right.
as far as tutorials go, i am still reading the arm946e-s technical reference
manual (it's a great read, 232 pages) and i think i am able to produce
something useful for the community :D ... but not today, as my mother
need's my nds for playing new super mario bros lol
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