Post questions in here for Pelle's C and tools

[hutch--]

Pelle's entire package has been widely received as a very professional project and his tools are very flexible and powerful so if you have any questions on either, feel free to ask them in here.

[petezl]

Hutch,
Is it valid to ask questions in here about asm and StrongArm?

Basically what I was trying to do a few weeks ago was to write a simple asm program for windowsCE 2004 and load it into a PPC.
(Pocket PC) It's supposed to have x86 architecture. I downloaded Pelles stuff and the API help for winCE but never did get any results.

If the above makes no sense, it reflects my current confusion about wrtiting stuff for PPC.
Peter.

[hutch--]

Pelle would be the guy to ask as my head is hardwired to x86 and I just don't know the platform.

[petezl]

I forgot to mention that Pelle's c and tools are excellent.
My problems are down to a lack of understanding of the PPC variants.
Is there anybody else in the same boat here?

Peter.

[PellesC]

(Pocket PC) It's supposed to have x86 architecture.

Do you have any more information about this? The last time I checked, PPC devices requires a StrongARM or better. You can use X86 for the emulator, but not for a real device. I'm not aware of any changes here, but then again, I don't pretend to know everything...

Pelle

[petezl]

Hi Pelle,
Sorry for the lack of information. It's like looking into a new crystal ball.
The details that I can find are:

• Windows mobile^tm 2003 second edition
• version 4.21.1088 (build 14132)
• @1996-2004 Microsoft corporation
• Processor Intel(R) PXA255
• 62 mb memory.

I'm sure I saw a mention of x86 somewhere but I can't find it now so I might be wrong with that.

Peter.

[PellesC]

Hello Peter,

No problems!

This is an ARM processor (XScale). If you can't find information at Intel (it's a pretty huge site, and I don't have a current/working link), you can also try www.arm.com - at least it used to be smaller/easier to navigate. Since we are talking about a RISC processor, they shouldn't add too many new instructions. If you can't find the latest docs, something older should work too (to get started).

Pelle

[petezl]

Thanks Pelle,
I have managed to get it all up and running now. Compiled a small C program which I installed and is working ok.
The trouble was down to a series of unrelated problems coupled with my lack of understanding of a new system.
The link to arm.com should be just the site I need now to get a better understanding of it all.
Thanks,
Peter. :U