I have this game engine...

[Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d]

Am Wed, 4 Nov 2015 09:40:42 +1000
schrieb Manu via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>:

> On 3 November 2015 at 18:36, Joakim via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 3 November 2015 at 07:30:44 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:  
> >>
> >> Am Tue, 3 Nov 2015 09:16:47 +1000
> >> schrieb Manu via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>:
> >>  
> >>> I have a samples directory which it would be theoretically
> >>> possible to run and see that they don't crash as part of a test
> >>> run. Also, I'd like to annotate my whole engine quite
> >>> comprehensively with unittests. It's something that I'm keen to
> >>> work on, and then it further helps to assure those toolchains
> >>> remain working.  
> >>
> >>
> >> But how exactly would you run these? All CI machines are x86_64. I
> >> guess emulators could be a possibility as long as they run
> >> headless. We'd need some way to get feedback from the emulator
> >> though (test passed/failed). If you're talking about running tests
> >> on the x86_64 architecture that should be easy.  
> >
> >
> > There's a Dreamcast emulator for Android/ARM:
> >
> > https://github.com/reicast/reicast-emulator
> >
> > You could run it inside the Android emulator on Travis: :)
> >
> > http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/languages/android/
> >
> > I'm sure their servers can handle an emulator of a 200 MHz MIPS
> > core with 16 MB of RAM running inside an ARM emulator. ;)  
> 
> For the record, I was mostly joking about Dreamcast ;) ... while I did
> support it actively some years back, I haven't built that code in a
> while. It would be a lot of fun to get it working again though :P
> Incidentally, there's a GCC dev that's been committing SIMD
> optimisations for the SH4 (Dreamcast) backend recently. He's obviously
> having some fun making all the vector intrinsics work with the DC
> hardware.
> Latest GCC is the best Dreamcast compiler we've ever had!

The Dreamcast is SH4 based? IIRC there are some regressions in
recent GCC builds for SH4 but it's being resurrected as the Open
Processor Foundation now develops open source SH processors:

http://lwn.net/Articles/647636/
http://0pf.org/about-ocf.html