Working on Bootforth / ficl

[Devin Teske]

On Nov 12, 2012, at 10:43 AM, Peter Grehan wrote:

> Hi Devin,
> 
>>> - A user-land ficl executable which acted exactly like the
>>> bootloader for better forth development
>>> 
>> 
>> Does it support "include" ? That's been one of the biggest things
>> preventing me from simulating boot in userland. If it does, this
>> would be a very great addition.
> 
> Have you had a look at sys/boot/userboot/test ? That should be able to (mostly?) help with userspace testing.
> 

Until now, I was only aware of "testmain" under sys/boot/ficl/ (and that doesn't get me very far because it lacks "include").

I took a look at sys/boot/userboot/test and it looks a lot more robust.

However, "test" currently doesn't compile (error below):

===> test (all)
Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/home/dteske/src/freebsd_svn/base/head/sys/boot/userboot/test
cc -O2 -pipe  -I/usr/home/dteske/src/freebsd_svn/base/head/sys/boot/userboot/test/.. -I/usr/home/dteske/src/freebsd_svn/base/head/sys/boot/userboot/test/../../.. -std=gnu99  -c test.c
In file included from test.c:41:
/usr/include/stdlib.h:54: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'wchar_t'
/usr/include/stdlib.h:95: error: expected ')' before '*' token
/usr/include/stdlib.h:96: error: expected ')' before '*' token
/usr/include/stdlib.h:110: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'wchar_t'
/usr/include/stdlib.h:111: error: expected ';', ',' or ')' before '*' token
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/home/dteske/src/freebsd_svn/base/head/sys/boot/userboot/test.
*** Error code 1

-- 
Devin

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