[fpc-other] Embarcadero plans to base C++ and Delphi compilers on LLVM

[Travis Siegel]

On Jul 11, 2012, at 6:19 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> I don't think it will ever be the sole FPC backend, for several  
> reasons:
> a) I doubt LLVM will ever support all platforms we support (go32v2,  
> OS/2, ...), and older platforms it does currently support (e.g. Mac  
> OS X/ppc) will probably become unsupported in

And, I'd like to offer up my thanks for these quote old unquote  
systems.  I still have (and use every day) a minimac with a ppc g4  
processor in it, and having fpc supported on it has saved me many times.
I for one appreciate the effort put into supporting these non-current  
platforms.