[Oberon] Oberon FPGA hardware point of view

[Chris Burrows]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
> Andreas Pirklbauer
> Sent: Friday, 10 August 2018 12:22 AM
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
> Subject: [Oberon] Oberon FPGA hardware point of view
> 
>    > The scheme we have used is this: There is a single module,
>    > called MCU.mod, for each family of microcontrollers, e.g.
>    > LPC176x (NXP Cortex-M3), STM32F7 (STM Cortex-M7) etc.
>   > There are eleven of these, all with the same name but stored
>   > in a folder named after the microcontroller family.
> 
> Just out of curiosity   have you considered doing this with the
> module contexts  construct, as it exists on A2?
> 
> i.e. using file names (microcontroller family name = prefix):
> 
>     LPC176x.MCU.Mod   (per convention)
>     LPC176x.MCU.rsc     (generated by compiler, used by loader)
>     LPC176x.MCU.smb   (generated and used by compiler)
> 
> And in the source code:
> 
>    MODULE Serial IN LPC176x;
>       IMPORT MCU IN LPC176x;
> 
> I know they are not part of the Oberon-07 language spec, but they
> could be added with very little effort.
> 

No - that would not work well for me. It would mean I would have to maintain up to 11 different copies of *every* source code file that currently IMPORTs MCU - the only difference being the IMPORT statements. 

Regards,
Chris