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Re: [MiNT] GCC 4.4.3
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From: "Eero Tamminen" <oak@helsinkinet.fi>
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 11:22 PM
To: <mint@lists.fishpool.fi>
Cc: "Jo Even Skarstein" <joska@online.no>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] GCC 4.4.3
Testing on a particular emulator is only saying something about how
FreeMiNT works on that emulator. If you want to test it on a ST, you
need an ST.
E.g. Hatari's ST emulation is pretty perfect (unlike TT or Falcon 
emulation
Yes, and yet you list a number of things that differs Hatari from the 
hardware it's emulating ;-) I'm not saying anything about the quality of 
Hatari or emulators in general, but they are not suited for final testing of 
software. This can only be done on the actual hardware the software is 
intended to run on.
What is hard though, is getting a full MiNT distribution with latest SW 
that
doesn't rely on Aranym host drivers (fDVI etc) and is set ready for use on
real ST HW (68000).
The real problem here is rather that FreeMiNT hasn't been working on 68000 
for a long time... Also, lack of RAM would probably be a big problem.
Jo Even 
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