[fpc-devel] Arm Thumb2 - Stellaris status

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 19.08.2011 10:33, schrieb Geoffrey Barton:
> 
> because one is forever re-compiling the compiler when one switches to
> a device with a new peripheral, and if your main activity is not
> compiler development but product development one has to go back and
> find out how to do it each time. Better that the core stays the
> same.

This is true, it makes things maybe easier for the first implementor, he
hacks together some units and directives but it is harder for any latter
user. He basically needs to do the same amount of work as the initial
implementator: find out that he needs some directive, find the correct
units etc.