[fpc-devel] Questions regarding pushing more onto assembler

[Jonas Maebe]

On 15 sep 2005, at 09:13, paul at codecompiler.com wrote:

> Now, the idea is the IF, ELSE and ENDIF macros will handle the  
> creation
> of the particular code for testing and such.
>
> There are a number of (already written) macros available to do  
> this, and
> I think it will reduce the complexity of the compiler (at a slight
> increase in complexity of the generated code via macros) .  I am
> wondering if there are any thoughts on this idea.

An obvious downside would be that the internal object writer would  
still need the functionality to translate these macro's into  
assembler/machine code. Additionally, the complexity of those  
constructs isn't that big and is written in an entirely processor  
independent way (ncgflw.pas), so you do not have to worry about that  
when porting the compiler.


Jonas