World: r4wp

Pekr: I strongly doubt that Cyphre is using Red's ELF emitter while 
compiling with gcc. ;-)

Bo: yes I'm aware of that, currently Red supports only armel ABI 
while it seems that armhf is required for Android.

The difference between those two ABIs is the way float arguments 
are passed on sub-routine calls, IIRC, armel requires the argument 
to be on stack while armhf passes them by registers.

It's not a big task to add armhf support to the ARM backend, probably 
2-3 days of work.

Okay, AdrianS install problem is solved (debug vs release version 
signature conflict). So, so far, no reported issues with the new 
Red APK! :-)

Red has no floating point yet, only Red/System

Unless there's float support in the pending code

No, there's not.

Yessssssss !!!!! on Galaxy Note II 4.1.2

Great! Thanks for testing! :)

either I have mess again on my system, or there's a compilation error 
for me, when trying to do:


do/args %red.r "-dlib -v 0 %red/bridges/java/hello.red -o %../red/bridges/java/hello" 


Script: "Red/System IA-32 code emitter" (none)
*** Compilation Error: missing argument
*** in file: %structures.reds
*** in function: exec/~java-instantiate-abstract
*** at line: 166
*** near: [jni-env/jni/NewObject]

Yes, the bridge updates have not been commited yet, I'm still working 
on cleaning it up. It should be ready in about an hour I hope.

ok, good to know, moving home from work, will try in the evening 
....

Just found out how to set a black (ICS) skin for Red apps on Android. 
Looks great! :)

Is it still true that Red/System doesn't support loading/reading 
files?

No, it does with my bindings

That's right, you have a C Language binding to do that, don't you?

Yes, and a cURL binding for network files

I'm trying to load binary data to perform some bit-level operations 
on it.

There's a binary example in my 6502 emulator, where it loads a ROM 
file

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-6502/dir?ci=tip

It sure would be nice if we had a centralized repository for Red 
and Red/System examples, like we have for Rebol at Rebol.org.

That wouldn't scale, unless it were a repository of links

The file operation is in machine.reds under the ROM heading

Is possible an bridge from red to App Inventor components ? https://sites.google.com/site/mobileprogrammingusf/java-bridge

In Rebol, I can put a 'halt at the end of my script to be able to 
read output from my script.  Can I do a similar thing in Red/System?

There is HALT, but I think it's the same as QUIT

If you have a console window in Windows that is closing, you could 
do

until [no]

Or if you're using my C library binding, to not use CPU:

input

OK.  Thanks!

I tried the until [no], but the console window just flashes up and 
disappears really quickly.  I'm assuming that's because it is erroring 
out.  Is there any document on how to debug this type of thing?

I'm trying to convert your file reading code to a general purpose 
function.

There are general purpose functions for text files here in ANSI.reds:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-C-library/dir?ci=tip

Can those be easily modified for binary files?

I was still going to make binary versions with the 6502 code. Shouldn't 
be hard. Binary is easier than text

I could do it now if you want?

I would really appreciate that!

OK, I have a suitable hole before my bedtime

ANSI.reds now has read-file-binary

Do I just synchronize that with Fossil?

Yes, if you have that installed, just do

fossil update

Added write-file-binary for good measure

Oops, I'm not returning the binary file length. Have to fix that 
oversight

Added a parameter to make read-file-binary return the file size

OK.

I updated the 6502 emulator to use it, so you can see an example 
there