[fpc-devel] On a port of Free Pascal to the IBM 370

Tomas Hajny XHajT03 at hajny.biz
Wed Jan 18 17:39:59 CET 2012


On Wed, January 18, 2012 16:51, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Sven Barth wrote:
>
>>> Perhaps now would be a good time for a core developer to add
>>> appropriate
>>> definitions to trunk, so that anybody working on the IBM port only
>>> needs
>>> to modify files in a directory off ./compiler.
>>
>> What kind of definitons do you think of?
>
> Absolute minimum, probably mostly makefile stuff so that make in
> ./compiler would correctly pick up ./compiler/s390, possibly initially
> populated with the MIPS stuff from trunk + my fudges.
 .
 .

If Mark meant also addition of constants for a new architecture + OS
combination(s), it's quite a bit of places already (I could find at least
the following: compiler/systems.inc, compiler/systems.pas,
compiler/utils/ppudump.pp, packages/fpmkunit/src/fpmkunit.pp and
utils/fpcm/fpcmmain.pp plus creation of the corresponding subdirectory in
the compiler directory; then there is also stuff like compiler/options.pas
where TOption.WriteHelpPages and other places are currently still missing
MIPS, compiler/msg/errore.msg, etc.).

Tomas





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