Re: [ooc-compiler] Im new here and need 1st help

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"Ulrich Schmidt" <ul...@gm...> wrote:
> Im a Pascal fan and i want bild a compiler for epoc, that is running on epoc
> (ARM7100).

I'm also an EPOC fan and would love to have some kind of Oberon on my 
Psion Series 5mx.  Unfortunately I don't have time at the moment as I'm
busy finishing my dissertation.  See http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/~muller/ 
for more info.  I hope to have some time at the end of the year for such 
a project.

At the ETH we have done some work with the StrongARM processor, which is
not directly compatible with the ARM7, but it is close.

In 1998 I supervised the Diplomarbeit of Andreas Signer, who developed an 
Oberon compiler for the StrongARM, and ported the Native Oberon system to 
a network computer (the DNARD "Shark") based on this chip.

See http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/group/gutknecht/stud_work/1998WS_asigner/
(his report is also available online, see the link at the end).

I am currently supervising the Diplomarbeit of Bernhard Egger, who is 
porting Patrik Reali's new Active Oberon compiler (not OP2) to the 
StrongARM, and will then port the Aos system to the same network computer.
His work will be finished in August.

We decided on the Shark for a first port, because we know its hardware 
quite well.  Other choices were the Psion or Compaq iPAQ.

> oberon is not far away from pascal and i think its easier to port ooc to

Do you have compiler-writing experience?

cheers
-- Pieter

P.S. Do you know of an IMAP client for the Series 5mx?  Email 2.0 is supposed
to support it, but it is not enabled in the version I have.

--
Pieter Muller, Institut fuer Computersysteme, ETH Zuerich
Native Oberon OS: http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/native/