[fpc-pascal] Free Pascal Support for ARM Architecture

Bernd Mueller mueller.b at gmx.net
Tue Dec 9 11:43:33 CET 2008


Bernd Mueller wrote:
> Aleksa Todorovic wrote:
>> So, the situation is like this:
>>
>> 1) Target ARM architecture needs to be "told" to FPC since FPC needs
>> this information to do correct code generation.
> 
> At least up to fpc 2.2.2, the compiler does not use any information 
> about the ARM architecture. There is one runtime check in the RTL which 
> tries to detect if the architecture is newer than ARMv4. If this is the 
> case, the RTL uses an optimized move function.

the RTL for ARM-Linux, I forgot to mention.

Regards, Bernd.




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