sid@linus.UUCP (Sid Stuart) (10/21/87)
I am looking for information on software available for the transputer. 1. Is there an ada (yeech) compiler for transputers. 2. I need to know about debugging environments available. I have read a little about the Occam envirionment, but I don't know what you can do with it. What I would like is the ability to write and debug C programs easily. To do that I need: A. A C callable library that support communications between transputers. B. Some way of doing step by step debugging on a multitransputer system, either at the source code level (hope, hope) or at the assembler level. I will compile and submit any information I recieve back to the net, so save those requests for whatever I get. Thanks, sid linus!sid sid@linus.b.mitre.org
andy@batcomputer.UUCP (10/22/87)
In article <15750@linus.UUCP> sid@zippy.UUCP (Sid Stuart) writes: >I am looking for information on software available for the transputer. > > 2. I need to know about debugging environments > available. I have read a little about the Occam envirionment, > but I don't know what you can do with it. When some folks from Los Alamos visited us (they have an FPS T-200) earlier this year, they mentioned that they had a minimal symbolic debugger for Occam up and running. > A. A C callable library that support communications > between transputers. Trillium (if we ever get it out the door!) will give you exactly that. Our cross-compiler environment is based on the C compiler/assembler/linker from Penguin (soon to be Pentasoft) Software tools. Mail to: dwight@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu should eventually make it to him. Our OS gives full dynamic message passing capability, inter- and intra- node. > B. Some way of doing step by step debugging > on a multitransputer system, either at the > source code level (hope, hope) or at the > assembler level. Although we don't use it much anymore, "tsim", our transputer instruction-set simulator was used primarily for single step debugging. Its a real handy tool when working with bizarre hardware. There is also a low-priority project starting to get underway in another segment of the Theory Center to build a simple source level debugger -- breakpoints, stack trace back, etc. and would work under Trillium. I honestly haven't heard much more about it, though... >sid@linus.b.mitre.org Andy Pfiffer -- Andy Pfiffer andy@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu Cornell Theory Center / Cornell U. cornell!batcomputer!andy Home of the first usable T-Series (607) 255-8686 "...that's the way a Transputer works, right?" Systems Group