As you may already know, ti is launching a development board for the stellaris microcontroller

https://estore.ti.com/Stellaris-LaunchPad.aspx

Currently I don't have any use for it, but for $4.99 with free shipping I could buy one (or two) just for playing with it, especially if I could program it in pascal instead of C.

A while ago there was a thread here regarding freepascal and the stellaris:

http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-devel/2011-August/thread.html#25333

but I don't know the outcome. Is it currently possible to develop software for that mcu with freepascal?

Bye

Op Sun, 16 Sep 2012, schreef Luca Olivetti:

but I don't know the outcome. Is it currently possible to develop software for that mcu with freepascal?

As far as I know the Cortex M series cannot run generic ARM code; it only understands the Thumb2 instruction set.

Daniël

FPC supports Thumb-2 code generation and arm-embedded supports also some stellaris types (LM3S* types) so it should be possible with little effort to compile programs with FPC for this device. But maybe Jeppe can say more.

I also preordered the board, but as far as I can see it shouldn't be too hard to add. It's a Cortex-M4F which has floating point support(for 32bit single math only).

The hardware floating point is the only thing not supported by FPC currently.

Al 16/09/12 19:21, En/na Jeppe Græsdal Johansen ha escrit:

I also preordered the board,

Well, so there's a good chance it will be supported, isn't there?

Bye