[fpc-pascal] ARM7TDMI

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Tue, 28 Aug 2007, schreef Marc Santhoff:

> Am Montag, den 27.08.2007, 14:14 +0200 schrieb Daniël Mantione:
> > 
> > Op Mon, 27 Aug 2007, schreef Rainer Stratmann:
> > 
> > > Is it possible to write ARM Programs for these single microcontroller chips 
> > > without a RTL and without specifying a target operating system?
> > > Or write pure Assembler Programs?
> > > And then to download it into these single chip controller?
> > 
> > The compiler always needs a runtime library. But you can customize RTL 
> > and it has been prepared for this by means of the embedded 
> > target, where you can enable or disable features. If you like you can also 
> > write your own rtl.
> 
> I thought about using fpc for (very) small embedded computers, too.
> 
> Doesn't your suggestion imply one of:
> 
> - hacking up one target already existing or
> - create at least a fake OS target
> 
> to tell the compiler which RTL to use?
> 
> If I understood the wiki page about porting to new OSses or CPU one way
> must be used.

This is correct, but there is nowadays an "embedded" RTL target, which is 
prepared for embedded use and allows easy selection of the RTL features 
needed.

Daniël