[fpc-devel] Alternative parsers

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Florian Klaempfl schrieb:
> Am 19.10.2010 11:08, schrieb Juha Manninen (gmail):
>> First Pascal-like languages and later C.
>> FPC's main developer doesn't see a need for it.
> 
> Indeed. Please tell what a C front end to FPC helps? FPC has no
> advantage over existing C compilers except being a pascal compiler ;).
> Do you think any C developer will work on a C compiler written in
> pascal? It won't make interfacing C headers easier as explained multiple
> times. So what do you expect from a C front end?

E.g. the elimination of the translation of C headers or entire libraries 
(bzip...), quick evaluation of sample code (usually in and for C 
libraries or APIs)...

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