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Free at last from the shackles of bad C compilers!!!

PostPosted: Dec 10, 2004 @ 10:04pm
by bitbank
[Emotional Programmer Dribble On]
I've just made the jump from x86 to ARM assembly language and it is incredibly liberating. When programming on the Desktop PC I never really cared about how bad the C compiler was because I always wrote time critical code in assembly language. I suffered with the Microsoft C compilers since WinCE 1.x. I've done workarounds for workarounds to get reasonable output from their C compilers. I waited a while before making the jump to ARM assembly language because MIPS and SH3 devices were still lurking out there. Now that ARM has conquered pretty much every battery powered device, it's good to be back :)

Of course ARMASM / eVC4 don't let me debug things like I would like, but it works and the performance boost of writing on the bare metal is worth the effort.

[Emotional Programmer Dribble Off]

L.B.

PostPosted: Dec 11, 2004 @ 8:13am
by jaguard

Re: Free at last from the shackles of bad C compilers!!!

PostPosted: Dec 11, 2004 @ 10:40am
by Kak

PostPosted: Dec 11, 2004 @ 3:39pm
by bitbank

PostPosted: Dec 16, 2004 @ 10:28am
by xPeterx

PostPosted: Dec 16, 2004 @ 12:57pm
by Conan

PostPosted: Dec 16, 2004 @ 3:47pm
by WingedOne
Is there a version of ARMAsm that you can compile programs directly on the PocketPC or is it just for compiling Pocket PC programs on the Desktop?

PostPosted: Dec 16, 2004 @ 3:54pm
by Dan East
You should be able to use the assembler included in the GCC compiler native to PPC. However the url we have here is broken:
http://www.pocketmatrix.com/forums/view ... hp?t=13235

[edit]I found the Yahoo Group that is now hosting that project. See the above thread for the updated url.[/edit]

Dan East

PostPosted: Dec 16, 2004 @ 10:56pm
by j.edwards