Re: Relocatable functions in C?

From	jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Relocatable functions in C?
Date	2015-08-15 23:29 +0000
Organization	Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 6:26:20 PM UTC-4, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> > > ... But why would there
> > > be "thousands" of DLLs - and even if there are, would they all
> > > be loaded by your program at the same time?
> > 
> > I'm creating a new tool for hardware design, called Logician.  This
> > tool will define and compile a piece of hardware using C, and not
> > Verilog.  It also uses a particular GUI hookup mechanism I've defined
> > which allows the complexities of attaching logic units to no longer
> > be mechanical, but instead graphical.
> > 
> > You can see some preliminary designs here:

>     https://github.com/RickCHodgin/libsf/tree/master/li386/logician/graphics

> > And I intend to hook things up using something like Blender's 3D
> > node editor, shown here:

> The node editor demo begins at 0:25:

>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmrCoGj9m2Y

Sorry to rain in on your parade, but that's all just graphics
stuff. That may be cool and all, but starting a complicated
project from thinking about how the final user interface will
look like is IMHO a recipe for failure. First solve the under-
lying problem, then work out how to present it to the user
(though, of course, it won't hurt to keep that also in mind in
the design phase). If you're up to developing anything but a
toy (and you mentioned "verilog" as something you want to top)
then it has to work also without a GUI and must be "programable"
- I guess you can be quite sure that people that actually do hard-
ware design will be capable of abstract thinking (they'll have to
be) and don't think in "pictures" to get their work done.

                         Regards, Jens
-- 
  \   Jens Thoms Toerring  ___      jt@toerring.de
   \__________________________      http://toerring.de

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Relocatable functions in C? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-14 09:57 -0700
  Re: Relocatable functions in C? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-14 10:13 -0700
    Re: Relocatable functions in C? Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2015-08-14 13:33 -0400
      Re: Relocatable functions in C? jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-08-14 19:51 +0200
        Re: Relocatable functions in C? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-14 16:12 -0500
      Re: Relocatable functions in C? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-08-15 16:17 +0200
  Re: Relocatable functions in C? Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-08-14 18:29 +0100
  Re: Relocatable functions in C? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-14 11:37 -0700
    Re: Relocatable functions in C? Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-08-14 19:43 +0100
      Re: Relocatable functions in C? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-14 11:46 -0700
        Re: Relocatable functions in C? Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-08-14 19:57 +0100
          Re: Relocatable functions in C? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-14 11:59 -0700
            Re: Relocatable functions in C? jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2015-08-14 20:27 +0000
          Re: Relocatable functions in C? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-14 12:01 -0700
    Re: Relocatable functions in C? Waldek Hebisch <hebisch@antispam.uni.wroc.pl> - 2015-08-25 22:36 +0000
      Re: Relocatable functions in C? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-26 05:55 -0700
  Re: Relocatable functions in C? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-08-14 12:57 -0700
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        Re: Relocatable functions in C? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-14 13:46 -0700
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    Re: Relocatable functions in C? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-15 10:31 +0100
  Re: Relocatable functions in C? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-15 11:56 -0700
    Re: Relocatable functions in C? jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-08-15 23:48 +0200
      Re: Relocatable functions in C? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-15 15:05 -0700
        Re: Relocatable functions in C? jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-08-16 00:12 +0200
          Re: Relocatable functions in C? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-08-16 16:09 +0200
      Re: Relocatable functions in C? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-16 10:47 +1200
        Re: Relocatable functions in C? jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-08-16 01:09 +0200
    Re: Relocatable functions in C? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-15 15:07 -0700
    Re: Relocatable functions in C? jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2015-08-15 22:09 +0000
      Re: Relocatable functions in C? jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-08-16 00:21 +0200
        Re: Relocatable functions in C? jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2015-08-15 23:44 +0000
          Re: Relocatable functions in C? jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-08-16 02:25 +0200
            Re: Relocatable functions in C? jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-08-16 02:34 +0200
            Re: Relocatable functions in C? jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2015-08-16 01:11 +0000
      Re: Relocatable functions in C? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-15 15:26 -0700
        Re: Relocatable functions in C? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-15 15:36 -0700
          Re: Relocatable functions in C? jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2015-08-15 23:29 +0000
            Re: Relocatable functions in C? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-15 16:34 -0700
  Re: Relocatable functions in C? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-15 17:03 -0700
    Re: Relocatable functions in C? jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-08-16 02:32 +0200
      Re: Relocatable functions in C? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-15 18:25 -0700
    Re: Relocatable functions in C? jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2015-08-16 01:26 +0000
      Re: Relocatable functions in C? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-15 18:38 -0700
      Re: Relocatable functions in C? "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-15 18:49 -0700
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