• Aty news or updates to the HP50g c compiler, hpgcc?

    From randalleed@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 18 15:11:18 2020
    I have this working, but its from a document that looks pretty dated: http://sense.net~egan/hpgcc

    Is there anything new on this, is it still in use or under development?
    it looks really cool.
    Randy

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  • From Bruce Horrocks@21:1/5 to randalleed@gmail.com on Sat Sep 19 12:42:58 2020
    On 18/09/2020 23:11, randalleed@gmail.com wrote:
    I have this working, but its from a document that looks pretty dated: http://sense.net~egan/hpgcc

    Is there anything new on this, is it still in use or under development?
    it looks really cool.
    Randy

    There's an HPGCC v3 which you can download from <https://www.hpcalc.org/details/6514>

    The main difference, as I understand it, is that v2 only allows you to
    write programs that completely take over the machine. v3 - in
    combination with a slightly modified HP50G ROM - allows you to write ARM machine code functions that look and behave like standard userRPL
    functions i.e. take values from and leave results on the stack.

    If you're writing games or intending to completely re-puupose the
    machine then it doesn't much matter. But if you want to accelerate some
    slow RPL routines then v3 is the obvious choice.

    HTH
    --
    Bruce Horrocks
    Surrey
    England
    (bruce at scorecrow dot com)

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