For now, it's not possible to program anything else than TI-Basic or Lua (unofficially) directly on a TI-Nspire, 'cause there is no on-calc assembler nor compiler for any language (nor editor). Of course, you're always free to make one

Looks like I need to do a lot of learning and write my own... *sets off to learn*

How hard would it be to port GCC for the purposes of using its inline assembler?

Quote from: fb39ca4 on January 05, 2014, 04:18:41 pm

How hard would it be to port GCC for the purposes of using its inline assembler?

~bump~ I'm not sure, but maybe it could be done easily in Linux on the Nspire?

Answer : on Linux there's nothing hard, just cross compile gcc and you can do what you want.

Well, if your goal is assembly you don't need to port GCC in its entirety, just GAS (the GNU assembler, commonly renamed 'as' on linux systems) or some other assembler and linker. That should fit into the 32 MB of greyscale nspires quite easily alongside the smaller kernel.

FYI there is already a fully functional linux port to the nspire. It can even run X.org (poorly) More information about that can be found here: http://www.omnimaga.org/ti-nspire-projects/calling-all-linux-kernel-developers!/


The smallest running set should take up less than 4 MB, leaving plenty of room for programming. On the other hand, I seem to recall there being an issue about writing any new data, so you'd lose everything on reboot, unless they've got NAND support running.


You might be better off trying to port an assembler to ndless, if that's the case.