[fpc-pascal] 'compiler host' vs 'compiler target'

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be> wrote:

> default, a non-cross-compiler indeed generates code for the same
> architecure/OS combination as it was compiled for itself.

Ah, so the compiler could be compiled for x86, but it's target when
compiling applications could be for a different processor.  Cool!  I
only new the -T parameter.


> Do you mean whether the compiler binary itself is 32 or 64 bit? There is no

Yes.


> the compiler. I'm not sure what the use for this information could be
> though.

I'm setting up the automated unit test runs for the tiOPF project. I
initially ran it only on one Linux server, but now I want to do it on
two servers. One being 32bit and the other being 64bit.  Once the unit
tests are complete, I use XSLT to generate a newsgroup posting looking
similar to the following (see below).  The variables will be filled in
before posting to the NNTP server. So in the posting I want to mention
what FPC version was used and if it was a 32bit or 64bit compiler.

============================
               tiOPF2 - FPCUnit Results
               ------------------------


SVN revision:
   r#REV

  Build time:
   <datetime>

Elapsed time:
   <elapsedtime>

Summary:
   FPC #FPCVER (#FPCCPU) - Tests run: %d, Failures: %d, Errors: %d

[...snip...]
============================


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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