Re: Naked LUA

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

Zomirp Cila wrote:
> On 27-Jul-10 13:30, Bogdan Marinescu wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Zomirp Cila<zomirp.cila@gmail.com>  
> > wrote:
> >   
> > > On 27-Jul-10 13:23, Bogdan Marinescu wrote:
> > >     
> > > > > All of them :)
> > > > > As I said, I want light diagnostic tool. The interpreter and script 
> > > > > will
> > > > > be
> > > > > loaded at runtime in RAM then executed.
> > > > >          
> > > > You want to load the _interpreter_ in RAM? You can forget about that,
> > > > no matter if you use Lua or not. You'll can't execute anything from
> > > > RAM on many 8-bit MCUs (PICs and AVRs, for example).
> > > >        
> > > You can on PPC, ARM, TriCore...
> > >      
> > Well, you did say "all of them" :) And I thought you were targetting
> > very small systems, because you want everything to fit in 16k.
>
> I'm targeting a bit advanced CPUs. 16kB limitation is due to their's 
> internal RAM. I would like to do dynamic diagnostic which is to advanced 
> for small CPUs
> (although I don't know what are the capabilities of "hobby" CPUs we 
> (used to) like so much, nowadays)

And "dynamic diagnostic" is...?

I think Lua hardware embedders on the list would be better able to 
discuss stuff if you can give an example of a specific MCU part 
that you are looking at.

--
Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia