[fpc-devel] fpc on ARM without OS

[Bernd Mueller]

Hello,

I am trying hard to avoid C on an ARM7TDMI/ARMv4T Controller 
(AT91SAM7Sx) ;-)

fpc seems to work pretty well on the controller (running the firmware 
out of flash memory) unless it comes to interrupts. But interrupts are 
required for my application. The ARM interrupt implementation seems to 
be rather complex.

Usually an interrupt procedure needs special entry and exit code. First 
I tried to simulate this with inline assembler. This failed because fpc 
did not support the required instructions. Then I modified the fpc 
generated assembler source and assembled this manually. As this would 
only be a proof of concept and I could not be sure, that the fpc 
developers would implement this in the compiler, I gave up on this (for 
now) and tried a second approach.

The startup code catches the interrupt and provides a wrapper around a 
normal C (Pascal) function, so that the special entry/exit code is not 
required. This is of cause the slower interrupt processing variant. 
Unfortunately the set of linker script and startup code (which work with 
C) fail with fpc. The fpc generated binary has a size of 0 byte (no 
error message). So there is something fundamental wrong. I attached the 
original files and would be happy, if someone could look over it or has 
another idea, what I could check to get this work.

Regards, Bernd.
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