[fpc-devel] Freepascal on SPARC, MIPS(EL) and ARM GNU/Linux hosts

[Michael Schnell]

> I was just reading the forums. Someone has largely ported
> FPC to little-endian MIPS, so I will try to contact him.
Please let me know about what you find !
>
> The lack of memory on ARM targets is not really a problem at all.
> I have QEMU virtual machines for various architectures and I can
> assign 256 MB to an ARM one, more than is physically available on
> a PDA which I intend to port Linux to.
The memory issues will be overcome soon. I'm just starting to design a 
Linux PCB and find that I likely will have 32MByte memory (even though I 
just need some 6 MB), as there are no smaller DDR.2 chips.

Do you think it's really essential to have the compiler run on the 
target ? Cross-compiling should be much easier to do and a lot easier to 
work with for the users. (Is anybody really supposed to write programs 
on his PDA ? )


-Michael