<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Peter B via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> schrieb am Do., 17. Okt. 2024, 13:29:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Anybody,<br>
on the subject of llvm; does anyone know if the option of llvm<br>
back-end for fpc is ever going to make an official release?<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The LLVM port has some shortcomings that will for the foreseeable future have it be a less good choice (like missing floating point exception handling if I remember correctly). </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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That would be really interesting if it means fpc could be bootstrapped <br>
to new hardware.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The LLVM port does not help in that regard at all, because the platform specific backends are still required for some low level stuff.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards, </div><div dir="auto">Sven </div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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