[fpc-devel] "embedded" again

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Michael Schnell wrote:

> There are different ways to use FPC (and Lazarus) to design and test 
> "embedded" projects for "headless" hardware.
> 
> Using a PC to do the biggest part of the software locally, as I 
> described in my original post seems to be commonly agreed upon.
> 
> But how to debug and finetune the stuff in the device itself ?

One thing I've done in the past (using a couple of different Modula-2 
compilers) was to code in such a way that the program would run on a PC 
as well as on the target. The algorithms were sorted on the PC with full 
access to debugging facilities, the code was then moved onto the target 
(protected-mode x86 bare-metal) where the greatest problem was 
memory-access exceptions which were all caught by a logic analyser.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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