[fpc-devel] stellaris launchpad

[Jeppe Græsdal Johansen]

Den 16-09-2012 18:10, Florian Klaempfl skrev:
> Am 16.09.2012 17:53, schrieb Daniël Mantione:
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>> Op Sun, 16 Sep 2012, schreef Luca Olivetti:
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>>> but I don't know the outcome. Is it currently possible to develop
>>> software
>>> for that mcu with freepascal?
>>
>> As far as I know the Cortex M series cannot run generic ARM code; it
>> only understands the Thumb2 instruction set.
>
> FPC supports Thumb-2 code generation and arm-embedded supports also 
> some stellaris types (LM3S* types) so it should be possible with 
> little effort to compile programs with FPC for this device. But maybe 
> Jeppe can say more.
I also preordered the board, but as far as I can see it shouldn't be too 
hard to add. It's a Cortex-M4F which has floating point support(for 
32bit single math only).

The hardware floating point is the only thing not supported by FPC 
currently.