[fpc-devel] fpc_ compilerproc

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2025, Mattias Gaertner via fpc-devel wrote:

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> On 6/25/25 08:42, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote:
>> If I'm right in thinking, things like "fpc_abs_real" are fallback 
>> functions that have to be overridden by a platform-specific 
>> implementation, and return runtime errors if they aren't implemented. In 
>> many cases, such internal compiler routines are not called at all 
>> because there's a direct instruction available in the architecture (e.g. 
>> for integer min and max functions, AArch64 has SMIN and SMAX 
>> respectively, but x86 doesn't have such direct operations).
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> Thanks.
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> Btw, the "compilerproc" modifier is still not documented. Google found 
> my post from 8 years ago asking a similar question. 🙃

I documented it.

Michael.