[fpc-devel] 64-bit Migration (fpc/laz)

[Jonas Maebe]

On 10 Jan 2010, at 15:26, London Disney wrote:

> As with my question (c), yes I mean what in the compiler did you
> need to modify or focus on the most ?

As far as adding Darwin/PPC64 support: very little, since someone else had already added Linux/PPC64 support.

> It's a bit broad may be but I think you only need to really
> worry about the code-generation for, say, G5 64-bit ABI
> and instruction set ? The rest of the code shouldn't need much change.

You can find a summary of the darwin/ppc64 changes in this log entry (amongst some unrelated changes): http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=6720


Jonas