Xiode
February 4th, 2010, 04:30 AM
I'm currently in a class at Georgia Tech called CS2200 - Systems and Networks that's basically a low-level CS class that starts at the hardware level and abstracts up from there (processor design, multithreading, ISA's, etc..).
Anyway, we use this 16-bit ISA called the "LC2200", which basically simulates a very simple 16-bit computer. For the first assignment, we were provided an assembly skeleton file and the actual simulator in a tarball. We had to create a recursive assembly program that computed a power, given a base and a power.
However, I wasn't able to get the simulator to install on my Karmic Koala partition. In our classes/labs, we use Red Hat 5 Enterprise, so I had to remote desktop into one of the servers in order to do the assignment. My current setup is a 64-bit install of 9.10 running in VirtualBox on top of Windows 7 Professional. Part of installing the simulator requires compiling the binaries via "make". Initially, the problem was that I didn't have GCC installed. After grabbing the latest version however, it was giving me errors that had to do with incompatible type conversions. I know that it works, however, because it compiled successfully on the school computers running Red Hat.
I know that's a lot of information to take in, but does anyone have any suggestions on what the problem might be? I attached a copy of the files we were provided (with the homework instructions) to provide a little more insight into what I'm asking.
Thanks in advance!
-Dan
Anyway, we use this 16-bit ISA called the "LC2200", which basically simulates a very simple 16-bit computer. For the first assignment, we were provided an assembly skeleton file and the actual simulator in a tarball. We had to create a recursive assembly program that computed a power, given a base and a power.
However, I wasn't able to get the simulator to install on my Karmic Koala partition. In our classes/labs, we use Red Hat 5 Enterprise, so I had to remote desktop into one of the servers in order to do the assignment. My current setup is a 64-bit install of 9.10 running in VirtualBox on top of Windows 7 Professional. Part of installing the simulator requires compiling the binaries via "make". Initially, the problem was that I didn't have GCC installed. After grabbing the latest version however, it was giving me errors that had to do with incompatible type conversions. I know that it works, however, because it compiled successfully on the school computers running Red Hat.
I know that's a lot of information to take in, but does anyone have any suggestions on what the problem might be? I attached a copy of the files we were provided (with the homework instructions) to provide a little more insight into what I'm asking.
Thanks in advance!
-Dan