PL/M users (Intel PLM)

[David Ditch]

If you currently work with Intel PL/M (PLM) code for current or Legacy
products I would like to hear from you.
I am interested in setting up a form like web site and I would like to
see if anyone would use it.
You would be able to get information on using PL/M and you could help
others out along with getting answers to your questions.

[Pieter Hoeben]

David,

I use Intel's PL/M51. I don't need any information on PL/M,
at least not now, as I am quite experienced in it, but am
willing to help others. The projects where I use PL/M
are industrial, like high precision servo controllers.

It is an old compiler. At the time it was developed, it was very
up to date. Nowadays C compilers like Keil can give better results.
I just wished I could get the old sourcecode from Intel, then
I could make optimalisations.

I would certainly use your site, but I don't think many others will.

Regards,

Pieter Hoeben

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[David Ditch]

I started the site today.
http://plmuser.tripod.com

I will add more links later.

This site will be to exchange information. Ask questions. This is an
unsupported language by Intel but some of us have legacy code.

David

[Ignacio González]

We've got a lot of legacy embedded software written in PL/M 86. It was
(sigh) a good language (better than C, IMHO), and the compiler from Intel
was very good (with a lot of minor bugs, but very well documented and not
annoying). We moved to Intel's iC-86 (C), which is a better compiler than
its German competitor CAD-UL. Now we are using iC-86 and GNU tools.

I think I don't need any help with PL/M-86, but I could give advice if
someone is interested in.

[David Ditch]

I think one of the things I want to expand on with this site is how to get
out of PLM.
My biggest problem is getting new people to do work on it. No one wants
to work in PLM because they are concerned with thier career (rightly so).
Has anyone here converted code to C using a converter like PLM2C or some
thing else? What compieler did you use for the 86 archetecture?

[Kevin D. Quitt]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:41:36 -0400, David Ditch
<ddi...@unitecelectronics.com> wrote:

>I think one of the things I want to expand on with this site is how to get
>out of PLM.

I have macros for the editor Epsilon that do the bulk of conversion from
PL/M to C. They mostly consist of regular-expression replacements so they
could conceivably be ported to another editor. Or you could buy Epsilon
and be glad you did.

It doesn't produce ANSI C as that hadn't been invented yet, and there are
ambiguities in the PL/M combined boolean/bitwise logic that needs the
attention of a human. I used these macros to do the conversion of several
hundred thousand lines of code.

My services are also for hire.

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[Ofir Amzaleg]

Ignacio González <igtorque...@eliopDOT.es> wrote in message
news:8d7brt$l1...@esiami.tsai.es...

Is there a way that I can compile C functions with PL/M modules?
I tried to do it , I compiled the C function with 'IC86' and then I tried
to link the C object with the PL/M objects with 'LINK86' but I got this
warning : "WARNING 19: TYPE MISMATCH"
I don't know how to solve it !
Is there any tutorials on compiling C an PL/M on the net?