[fpc-devel] FPC-JVM: Status report on Android

[Michael Schnell]

On 08/29/2011 05:58 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
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>>
>> That is why I am astonished that converting Java-Bytecode to Dalvik 
>> code should be an easy task.
>
> A stackbased internal or intermediate representation is the most 
> general one, from which a compiler can decide which registers to use 
> for expression evaluation etc.  FPC itself uses registers only for the 
> actual code generation, depending on how many registers are available 
> on the target machine.
I don't see what you mean here. While of course FPC does acknowledge the 
count and kind of registers with targets like ARM or X86 or X86-64, Sven 
reported that his port for Java targets creates register-ignorant (stack 
based) code for standard (SUN) virtual Java machines and the 
"dex-converter" by Google converts this to 16-bit-wide Dalvik code which 
introduces Register notation.

-Michael