[coldfire-gnu-discuss] Objective-C

[Andre Lipinski]

Nathan,

On Mar 16, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Nathan Sidwell wrote:

> Andre,
>> I see from the CodeSourcery site that you've got G++ compilers --  
>> are these substantially modified(cut-down) or enhanced from GCC?  
>> I've also been through the GCC project site and found that your  
>> staff contribute much to GCC and are largely responsible for  
>> improved ColdFire support in GCC which is just WONDERFUL!
>
> Thank you :)  The toolchains we provide have the ColdFire patches  
> ported to stable GCC branches (4.1 is the current release, and 4.2  
> is arriving shortly). Mainline FSF has the ColdFire changes and  
> those will work their way into 4.3. In addition, we validate the  
> binaries we provided by building them in a controlled environment  
> and running the testsuites on a variety of target boards.
Does that include the NetBurner modules?
>
>> I'm a Mac SW engineer and have many years of ObjC experience, and  
>> many Mb of source code, some of which I'd like to reuse in an  
>> embedded project I'm working on. I'd like to see a ColdFire  
>> development and debug environment on Mac OS X using XCode if  
>> possible, Eclipse if necessary. If successful it could be a boon  
>> to Mac developers who are keen on ColdFire and want a "mainstream"  
>> embedded solution without giving up their Macs.
>
> The SourceryG++ product includes Eclipse integration.  We're not  
> currently supporting Mac as a host system, but would consider it if  
> there was demand.
What exactly would it take to move forward?

>
>> I'd like to get your opinion of what might be involved in making  
>> this happen. I think building a toolchain should be quite doable  
>> based on what I've read at the GCC site and your comments this  
>> morning. But putting it all together with hardware (I'm thinking a  
>> NetBurner 5282 based module) and actually getting it to work could be
>> something I'm not prepared to do. I certainly am prepared to spend  
>> significant time on this, but don't want to "reinvent the wheel."
>
> It depends where you think your strengths are and what you want to  
> spend your time on.  Do you want to develop and validate a  
> toolchain, or do you want to write programs :)

I would consider both a good use of my time and abilities. Just how  
much time is needed, in your experience?

Best,
Andre.