[fpc-devel] 2.0.4-rc3 available

[Florian Klaempfl]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
>> I don't know yet whether it will be worth the effort, but it
>> looks as though it could be done if necessary.
> 
> It isn't. I never saw the TP compilability of later 1.0.x versions
> confirmed, and even before 1.0 times, special care need to be taken (due to
> TP's memory restraints).
> 
> But more importantly, also for a bootstrapping process you need the
> binutils. And if you have that, crosscompiling is way, way easier.

The point about VMS isn't the cross compilation but the support in the current 
compiler and rtl.