RISC OS 64bit OSLib

[Charles Ferguson]

On Sun, 22 Dec 2024, Charles Ferguson wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Nov 2024, Charles Ferguson wrote:
> 
> > Hiya,
> >
> > As you may know, I've built a version of OSLib that is intended to work
> > with 64bit RISC OS - https://github.com/gerph/riscos64-oslib. However,
> > the code it generates isn't great, and there are a number of things that
> > it doesn't do correctly - large numbers of input registers, processor
> > flags, and some of the odd interface definitions that I don't understand.
> > Oh and it doesn't handle the value returning versions of the interfaces,
> > only the error reporting ones (ie x-prefixed calls).
> >
> > I'm intending to continue developing and improving it, but there is
> > always limited time.
> >
> > Is there anyone who is interested in updating the original OSLib to
> > build for RISC OS 64?
> 
> I'm guessing that there's little interest in this, given by the lack of
> response. However, even if people aren't interested in it, I'll be
> continuing working on it.
> 
> Additionally there is a processed collection of information in the OSLib
> parser repository which I've just released -
> https://github.com/gerph/riscos-oslib-parser/releases/tag/v0.01
> 
> This contains generated information for:
> 
> * SWI conditions (entry, exit, naming, conditionals).
> * NVRAM constant names
> * RISC OS Pyromaniac PyModule templates
> * Constants
> * RISC OS Pyromaniac API templates
> * AArch64 interface generation (from the above repo)
> * RISC OS Python SWI templates - not quite right yet
> * Structures ('wimp messages') - not quite working yet
> 
> These are used in RISC OS Pyromaniac and other projects (like my
> disassembler) to describe the interfaces of the system.
> 
> If anyone wants to improve them, or finds them useful, please let
> me know.

A small note to say that the parser now has support for generating
CMHG headers and a stub C module source from the definitions. Now
available at:

https://github.com/gerph/riscos-oslib-parser/releases/tag/v0.02

-- 
Charles Justin Ferguson
[ My thoughts are my own. And sometimes they're not even sane. ]