stdcore[x] type or labelling?

[Folknology]

Not being able to see inside platform.h we have no way of knowing what stdcore[] is an array of. it would be handy to be able to use names sometimes instead of the stdcore[x] notation.

so for example:

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....
stdcoretype networkcore = stdcore[0];
stdcoretype monitorcore = stdcore[1];
...

main(void){
  chan c;
  ..
  on networkcore : start_eth(c);
  on monitorcore : fetch_data(c);
  ..
}

Just for readability reasons more than anything, is it possible to do this?

[f_petrini]

Well, almost...

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#define networkcore 0
#define monitorcore 1

main(void){
  chan c;
  ..
  on stdcore[networkcore]: start_eth(c);
  on stdcore[monitorcore] : fetch_data(c);
  ..
}

[Folknology]

Yeah I had thought of that one, great minds..

I was hoping for something less verbose ;-)

[m_y]

Assuming a G4...

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#include <platform.h>

core c0 = stdcore[0];
core c1 = stdcore[1];
core c2 = stdcore[2];
core c3 = stdcore[3];

void nothing()
{
}

int main()
{
  par
  {
  on c0: nothing();
  on c1: nothing();
  on c2: nothing();
  on c3: nothing();
  }
  return(0);
}

[Folknology]

Cool thanks M_Y that's perfect.

Assuming this technique will also work with L2s and 2 cores rather than 4?

[m_y]

Assuming this technique will also work with L2s and 2 cores rather than 4?

It should work in all cases.

[Folknology]

Thank you

it is exactly what I needed....

regards
Al

[lilltroll]

m_y:s example should be added in the wiki!

It's useful and clean but I have missed it. Just some info about the core as an ingress.

I know that core is a reseved word, but is it correct to call it a type

[lilltroll]

Assuming a G4...

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#include <platform.h>

core c0 = stdcore[0];
core c1 = stdcore[1];
core c2 = stdcore[2];
core c3 = stdcore[3];

void nothing()
{
}

int main()
{
  par
  {
  on c0: nothing();
  on c1: nothing();
  on c2: nothing();
  on c3: nothing();
  }
  return(0);
}

I tried it on my XDK and it works fine - but, it doesn't seems to be supported by the spell-checker yet. The compiler likes it, but the spell-checker reports Syntax Error.

If this is a "XMOS supported" way to write code, and I do not misunderstand things, it would be nice to add it in the 10.4.1 release.

[Folknology]

Hehe, thats one advantage of using the command line tools, I just added 'core' as a new additional identifier in my .emacs for XC and bingo ;-)