[fpc-devel] progress of freepascal for mips

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Florian Klämpfl wrote:
> Am 08.06.2012 14:54, schrieb microcode at zoho.com:
>> On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 17:15:51 +0800 (CST)
>> "Fuxin Zhang" <zhangfx at lemote.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> I made a start at trying to get assembler and backend info into the
>>>> Wiki, my intention was to at least have URLs for the various ABIs. I
>>>> rather ground to a halt after getting examples of the assembler format
>>>> together for most targets, if anybody could contribute ABI stuff it
>>>> would be much appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Assembler_and_ABI_Resources
>>> I have added a link to mips O32 ABI file to the MIPS section.
>> Mark, guys, were you wanting the information itself on the wiki or are
>> links good enough? 
> 
> Please keep copyright in mind when adding new stuff!

Absolutely. However I think that a paraphrased description of e.g. the 
calling conventions used by a particular CPU isn't something that could 
be copyrighted: patented, perhaps, or viewed as a leaked trade secret, 
but not copyrighted.

But I think that in most cases good links will be an adequate resource. 
Possibly with notes where GCC and/or FPC is known to deviate.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
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