Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib for ColdFire

[Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>]

Petr Stehlik wrote:
> When programmers are going to spend their time to adapt the existing
> source code to run on a new processor, to adapt operating system, to add
> m68k emulation to it, then why don't they do it the way Apple did and
> move to a more mainstream platform (Apple did it even twice, both time
> successfully - first PPC, then Intel)?

Because hardware designers are not as much open minded as programmers.

> My only concern here is that while
> binaries compiled for a totally different CPU than m68k wouldn't run at
> all on Atari computers or clones the ColdFire binaries would run - they
> would just misbehave slightly... And I'd like to prevent that
> misbehavior, user frustration and disappointment by adding the CPU
> detection to at least the MiNTlib.

I repeat, you are totally right, this is a must-have feature.
ST users were used to get bombs when trying to run the few executables
opmtimized for the arithmetic coprocessor.
Never again.

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Vincent Rivière