BCD List to HEX List

Paul Rubin http
Mon Jul 31 02:36:44 EDT 2006


Philippe Martin <pmartin at snakecard.com> writes:
> > Why are you avoiding naming the chip and its compiler?
> 
> I must disagree on that one: There are many threads on this site where
> people just have fun talking algorithm. I'm not an algo. expert and I know
> there are many here.

This is just like the very common situation here and on sci.crypt,
where a person has a programming or algorithm question and gets asked
what the application is, and when they answer, it turns out that what
they need is not anything like what they thought they needed.

> on one device, the processor in an 8-bit arm and the X-compiler is made by
> epson 
> 
> on the other device, the processor is unknown to me and the environment is a
> subset of java made for smartcards called javacard.

???? You mean ARM?? There is no such thing as an 8-bit ARM; they are
32-bit cpu's that (in some models) support a 16-bit instruction
format.

Javacard is an interpreter that runs in many 8-bit processors.  The
interpreter supports 32-bit arithmetic.



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