Need to modify source and recompile: C !

Yes, and I don't see a problem as long as you use the gnu set of tools. They work as well as on mips, sparc, x86, or any other properly supported platform.

There are some limits to process size, just as on the phidgets series, but I never reached those other than compiling huge java and c++ code. And only in tests on the rpi. And never with plain c.

It is a pretty bog standard gcc+linux debian-based machine when it comes to building your own.

-- mrr

gordon @ dragonpi: cat > hw.c #include main () { printf ("Hello world\n") ; } ^D gordon @ dragonpi: gordon @ dragonpi: cc -o hw hw.c gordon @ dragonpi: ./hw Hello world gordon @ dragonpi:

So just what are you? "Unknown " therefore anonymous. If you want people to take you seriously then put a name to yourself.

Basically, you're the one full of old-crap, not the Pi, and I'm not wasting my time reading your dribble anymore.

Gordon

PLEASE STOP REPLYING TO THAT GUY!

I suspect dementia. Everything used to be easier/better ...

Yes, of course. Why else would I have one?

GNU C and the GNU compiler tools (make, flex & bison) all work well and fast. I've used CVS version control on my other Linux boxes for some years, so of course I extended it to my RPi. I installed the Debian cvs packages and pointed that copy at my main source repository - a few minutes was all it took, and was immediately able to download and compile my usual editor (microemacs) and my personal support libraries and menu system. All compiled without issues and ran immediately once I'd downloaded, compiled and installed the GNU termcap library, which is needed by microemacs. So far, that's the only missing component and has apparently been dropped from Debian due to its age.

Minor niggle: Flex isn't a GNU tool. GNU Make and Bison are not specifically for GCC either.

I wasn't sure about Flex.

However, the main points are that the usual C developer tools are available on the RPi and work well. Further, C code I've developed on Intel boxes running under Fedora recompile and run on an RPi without any problems.

Aye, you had proper trolls when I were young!

Yes, that's what usually happens with me, and what I want to avoid. For the miminal intended usage, I expect it to fly-immediately without any 'tuning'. I was impressed: reading that Apple designs their stuff so that the client can just plug-it-in-and-go.

OMG! Will this be opening another canOworms? These *minor* niggles can consume massive resources.

Thanks for 'walking in front'; I'll try to follow you.

You see what I mean about the technical dialogue morphing to a girly chat?

No! That's the first step to posting pictures of yourself and your cat. This NOT a social forum. 'Do' the "Subject:" not the personality. If you're lonely go somewhere else.

The second part and the last bit are entirely reasonable in this case but not, in my opinion, for reasons of pseudonimity. If he or she had consistently signed "Richard Cranium" it would still have been the same persona. One reason for using a pseudonym might be to keep online and real life, especially work, separate to some extent. That's my reason, anyway.

Who died and made you moderator-in-chief?

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Everybody who keeps failing to killfile the troll and instead replies to his baiting.

I was going to curse you for cursing the name that the prophet gave me [blessed be his name] but I decided to just rather paste/test your, code [without the bombastic 18-char (given the value/scarcity of PS1 real-estsate].

And of course it failed with what seemed familiar from previously. But thanks for pasting you confirming code.

Since this SD is an original from RS, I don't intend to and screw-up what's working.

This loss of control to an automaton which updates YOUR system is like the boys who thought they could mortgage their house for beer.

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