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04-05-2014, 08:58 PM
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I was wondering if the standard applications were programmed with the sort of Basic language or if they were compiled from C like the rest of the firmware?
The second option was my first assumption but then I started to suspect I could be wrong.
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04-05-2014, 10:17 PM (This post was last modified: 04-05-2014 11:00 PM by eried.)
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RE: Prime applications
(04-05-2014 08:58 PM)Tugdual Wrote:  I was wondering if the standard applications were programmed with the sort of Basic language or if they were compiled from C like the rest of the firmware?
The second option was my first assumption but then I started to suspect I could be wrong.

The user apps are just a clone of a system app one with a custom script. If you switch to any app and then open "program" you will see that the first element in the program catalog is the app itself. 100% sure that the standard apps aren't coded in basic.

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04-06-2014, 07:30 PM (This post was last modified: 04-06-2014 07:31 PM by eried.)
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RE: Prime applications
Well, just to support what I thought about standard apps:
[Image: Image%202014-04-06%20at%204.23.07%20PM.png]

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By the way there are other interesting references :o inside armfir.elf:
[Image: Image%202014-04-06%20at%204.29.33%20PM.png]

But given the language, the are maybe just garbage leftover. Sacre bleu!

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04-06-2014, 08:00 PM
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RE: Prime applications
Hi eried !

Please tell me, the pictures are taken from the famous ida pro software ?

regards,

Damien.
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04-06-2014, 08:29 PM
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RE: Prime applications
(04-05-2014 10:17 PM)eried Wrote:  … 100% sure that the standard apps aren't coded in basic.

(04-06-2014 07:30 PM)eried Wrote:  Well, just to support what I thought about standard apps: …

Is it possible that they are written in basic and then run through something to convert the basic to C / C++?
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04-06-2014, 08:48 PM
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RE: Prime applications
Yes, these are from IDA. About the conversion, it is possible but highly improbable. Internal structure would look pretty messed up if it was a conversion from basic to c++. Also there are debug references to .cc files (that the linker leaves?) so the conversion is even less probable.

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04-07-2014, 05:16 AM
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RE: Prime applications
Hello,

The build in apps are all written in C-- (this is what I call c with classes, not full blown c++)... well, appart from the function and advanced graphing apps which are in c++ :-)

the 3D references that you saw most likely comes from the CAS which includes a lot of things that we do not use. This probably comes from the CAS 3D geometry package.

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04-07-2014, 04:30 PM
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RE: Prime applications
Good to know. It would be lovely and poetic the other way around (written in HPPPL), bootstrapping in pure expression but I guess the performance would drop immensely.

About the 3d stuff inside, you're crushing users h(?:y|o)pe cyrille! Tongue

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