Sharp Zaurus SL-5000D Linux (Squeak?) PDA

Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus schwa at cc.gatech.edu
Sun Dec 2 15:38:15 UTC 2001


On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:28:59PM +0000, Douglas Brebner wrote:
> On Saturday 01 December 2001 03:51, you wrote:
> > John.Maloney at disney.com wrote:
> > > Tim,
> > >
> > > Isn't there an alternative to gcc for StrongARM? For example, does
> > > CodeWarrior support StrongARM? I suppose there could be linking
> > > issue...
> >
> > It might well, but I have no idea if it is freely available for *nix.
> > Acorn of course have/had the Norcroft/CodeMist compiler which is pretty
> > good but probably not available. M$ support ARM under VC++ of course but
> > I _really_ doubt that will run under *nix!
> >
> > Of course there is the ol'Interval translator.....
> 
> Has anyone been working on this? It seems to me this could be a more powerful 
> tool than Jitter.

Except that you have to write in Slang.  It is certainly a nice complement to
Jitter, but not a replacement.

Joshua

> 
> Related to this, would the new compiled method format be able to handle 
> (possibly multiple) native codes in addition to byte codes? This could be 
> handy for the SqueakNOS people too.
> 
> -- 
> Douglas
> 




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