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Re: SDL for the TI-Nspire
« Reply #15 on: February 10, 2012, 03:18:04 am »
This is good to hear Hoffa :)

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Re: SDL for the TI-Nspire
« Reply #16 on: February 10, 2012, 07:36:17 am »
Great job hoffa I can't wait to see what comes of this. I'll also have to move my one simple SDL program over to the nspire. How much code change is needed to go from a program written in C++ for a computer to working with the calc?
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Re: SDL for the TI-Nspire
« Reply #17 on: February 10, 2012, 07:52:48 am »
Well, Ndless is focusing on C, but you can get a C++ compiler to work: http://blog.tangrs.id.au/?p=712 .
If the program only uses SDL libraries and hoffa finished this one, it should compile fine without any changes. (I think)

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Re: SDL for the TI-Nspire
« Reply #18 on: February 10, 2012, 08:16:12 am »
thanks jimbauwens I forgot that ndless was mainly for C :P
And I actually will still need to know if this will work on a regular nspire. I dont have a CX :(
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Re: SDL for the TI-Nspire
« Reply #19 on: February 10, 2012, 09:10:51 am »
It should work on any Nspire, if hoffa does it correctly (and I don't doubt that) :)

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Re: SDL for the TI-Nspire
« Reply #20 on: February 11, 2012, 08:04:18 am »
I think I've finally--after many smashed walls, headaches and a bucket of aspirin--narrowed down one major issue.

Have this piece of code for instance:
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#include <os.h>

typedef struct type1_t {
    const char *s;
} type1_t;

typedef struct type2_t {
    const char *s1;
    const char *s2;
} type2_t;

int main(void) {
    type1_t test1 = {"foobar"};
    type2_t test2 = {"foo", "bar"};
    printf("test1.s: %s\n", test1.s); /* Prints "foobar" */
    printf("test2.s1: %s\n", test2.s1); /* Should print "foo"; doesn't */
    printf("test2.s2: %s\n", test2.s2); /* Should print "bar"; doesn't */
    return 0;
}

As you can read, the output is:
test1.s: foobar
test2.s1:
test2.s2:

Which is completely wrong. Here's what the output obviously should be: http://codepad.org/DQcGIFy3

I think this might be one of those ARM struct alignment issues, or possibly some other bug. Either way, it has kept me from advancing with the port.
Any input on this one, ExtendeD? (or others, if you know what might be causing the problem)
« Last Edit: February 11, 2012, 08:14:14 am by hoffa »

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Re: SDL for the TI-Nspire
« Reply #21 on: February 11, 2012, 09:47:03 am »
Well on my side it outputs:

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test1.s: foobar
test2.s1: foo
test2.s2: bar

Which version of GCC are you using? On which OS?
Can you also post the content of the .s file generated with nspire-gcc -S <your.c>?
« Last Edit: February 11, 2012, 09:52:06 am by ExtendeD »
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Re: SDL for the TI-Nspire
« Reply #22 on: February 11, 2012, 10:01:20 am »
This is very weird, not the first time only I have the issues.

Here's the assembly code: http://pastebin.com/2Giv2ScW

I also attached a TNS that doesn't print the values.

EDIT:
Windows 7 x64 and Yagarto that uses the following versions:
binutils: 2.21
gcc:      4.6.2
newlib:   1.19.0
gdb:      7.3.1
« Last Edit: February 11, 2012, 10:03:52 am by hoffa »

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Re: SDL for the TI-Nspire
« Reply #23 on: February 11, 2012, 10:38:07 am »
My .s is identical. Strangely using nspire-as on the .s file reproduces the error on my side.
I see:
.LC2:
   .word   .LC0
   .word   .LC1
Which is not good, GCC doesn't make it relocatable by Ndless.

I'm afraid you will have to use something like this:

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int main(void) {
    type1_t test1 = {"foobar"};
    type2_t test2 = {"foo", "bar"};
    nl_relocdata((unsigned*)&test2.s1, 1);
    nl_relocdata((unsigned*)&test2.s2, 1);
    printf("test1.s: %s\n", test1.s); /* Prints "foobar" */
    printf("test2.s1: %s\n", test2.s1); /* Should print "foo"; doesn't */
    printf("test2.s2: %s\n", test2.s2); /* Should print "bar"; doesn't */
    return 0;
}

See http://hackspire.unsads.com/wiki/index.php/Ndless_features_and_limitations#Global_variables_and_initialization .

How much is this a problem in your case?
If it is too annoying I will then  have to integrate tangrs's ELF loader with its drawbacks.
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Re: SDL for the TI-Nspire
« Reply #24 on: February 11, 2012, 10:57:24 am »
I see. But how come then that you were able to see the strings?

It does work now, but I'm afraid it will make the porting process a rather "hacky" and dirty one, with #if directives everywhere (breaking the clean code and flexibility) as SDL does rely quite a lot on structs. The code is not that simple in SDL as in the example, so the result might be spaghetti code. For now I'll try to see how it goes with nl_relocdata, if the code becomes an ugly mess I'll tell you. Thanks anyway for pointing out that fix, it'll be useful.

What are the drawbacks of using the ELF loader?

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Re: SDL for the TI-Nspire
« Reply #25 on: February 11, 2012, 11:01:18 am »
According to tangrs the program size seems rather random, sometimes very big.
And this would require maintaining a much more complex program loader than the current one.
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Re: SDL for the TI-Nspire
« Reply #26 on: February 11, 2012, 11:03:58 am »
BLFT is also another possible option, if that may help with making SDL port work.
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Re: SDL for the TI-Nspire
« Reply #27 on: February 11, 2012, 11:04:07 am »
ELF is a very complicated format, so an ELF loader is a complicated piece of software :(

bFLT ( http://www.uclinux.org/bFLT/ , http://retired.beyondlogic.org/uClinux/bflt.htm ) is much simpler a format, which was suggested a number of times since the introduction of Ndless 1.0 nearly two years ago.
I once opened the source code of Linux kernel's bFLT loader ( https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob;f=fs/binfmt_flat.c;hb=HEAD ). It needs some porting to work outside the Linux kernel environment :)

EDIT: heh, I see alberthro beat me by mere seconds to mentioning bFLT :D
EDIT2: added a note.
EDIT3: added link to Linux's bFLT loader.
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Re: SDL for the TI-Nspire
« Reply #28 on: February 11, 2012, 11:08:35 am »
I will rely on nl_relocdata as long as possible then; the advantages of keeping the ELF loader away outweigh the advantages of integrating it. But we'll see how it turns out after a few lines of code.

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Re: SDL for the TI-Nspire
« Reply #29 on: February 11, 2012, 11:26:31 am »
EDIT:
Windows 7 x64 and Yagarto that uses the following versions:
binutils: 2.21
gcc:      4.6.2
newlib:   1.19.0
gdb:      7.3.1

For me the program works, also windows7 x64, but yagarto with gcc 4.6.0 and gdb 7.2.