[fpc-devel] FPC and Z80

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020, nickysn--- via fpc-devel wrote:

> Last night, I got the full system unit to compile, including console
> output, so now you can use standard write/writeln. Unfortunately if you
> include both read/readln and write/writeln in your program, the program
> becomes too big to fit in the memory of the 48k ZX Spectrum, so there's
> lots of optimizations left to do... :) However, the fact that the
> system unit compiles fully, means that the code generator is starting
> to become stable and, therefore, you should have little trouble porting
> FPC to other Z80 platforms, such as the MSX - it's a matter of writing
> the platform-specific RTL functions, and implementing the specific
> things (linking and postprocessing the binary), required to produce a
> program, in a format, suitable to run on the MSX.

Well, I'm surprised and impressed you got it to work at all... 
Quite an achievement.

I suppose FPC is now probably the compiler working for the biggest number of
CPUs/OSes - if it wasn't already. (C excepted, probably)

Michael.