Re: lua5 palmos port (general 16 bit)

[Haemish Graham <haemish@...>]

Benoit Germain wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have started this port a while ago, but it is idle for the time being for
> lack of time (and a PC at home :-)
> currently I have a sample test application that compiles, but somehow gives
> incorrect results when compiling factorial.lua. But it's a start. I can this
> to send whoever is interested though.
Hi Benoit.

I am certainly interested in seeing what you have done so far, I read 
your posts with great interest when I started hacking the Lua5 source. 
People may be interested to know that Lua4 seems to exhibit far fewer 
problems when porting to PalmOS. It took a couple of hours persuade a 
few things to compile and split the code into 32k chunks but other than 
that it does indeed just seem to work. I may of course be tempting fate 
saying that as I have not done much testing yet.

Perhaps we can track down the owner of one of the source forge projects 
for PalmOS Lua and make the work public. I assume the authors of Lua 
have no problem with this so long as the original copyright messages 
remain intact, just to be sure I will read through the licence later.

Cheers.

-haemish

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Haemish Graham [mailto:haemish@astraware.com]
> Envoyé : mardi 9 septembre 2003 01:41
> À : Lua list
> Objet : Re: lua5 palmos port (general 16 bit)
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> Robert Anderberg wrote:
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> > I would suggest the only 'porting' you would need to do would be to put all
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> > the source files in one directory along with the lua.c and compile. This 
> > should only take 10 minutes with any ansi C compiler, then you could see if
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> > it was fast/small enough for your use.
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> Sadly there are various additional factors with a PalmOS port as the 
> memory model is not vanilla. There are other issues too, for example, 
> you have to split the code into 32k sections, this is not hard just 
> tedious:) There also appear to be some slight issues with the hashing 
> mechanisms used in various places when ints are only 16 bits long. 
> Although there has been a port of Lua4 to PalmOS (PLua) there does not 
> seem to be a port of Lua5 to PalmOS, but if you seach the archives of 
> this list for 'PalmOS' you will see some traffic from various attempts. 
> Lua5 certainly does not compile easily for PalmOS, even after you have 
> taught some of the m68k-palmos headers a lesson with a big stick.
>
> Out of interest are any of the platforms you have compiled Lua for 16 bit?
>
> -haemish
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