[fpc-devel] How to get FPC to generate floating point instructions for ARM?

[Jonas Maebe]

On 17 Mar 2011, at 11:58, Thomas Schatzl wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:30:42 +0100, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>> Tier one or not depends on someone who is willing to spend time on
>> maintaining, packaging and supporting it. [...]
>
> ... and has the hardware.

Anyone working on any free software project can get an account on the  
GCC compile farm: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm

They "only" have ARMv5 and ARMv7 machines, but it's better than nothing.

> Nevertheless, there will be a 2.4.4 release for ARM/linux (barring  
> any last-minute showstoppers) ARMv5/EABI/softfloat, an rc1 is  
> already on the ftp. There will be an ARM/iOS crosscompiler release  
> too.

There won't be an iOS 2.4.4 release, because it would barely work with  
current iOS SDK releases:
a) as of Xcode 3.2.0, simulator builds require the iphonesim target  
that only exists in 2.5.x
b) as of Xcode 3.2.6 and Xcode 4, all object files (including those  
generated by the resource compiler) must having matching ARM  
architecture identifiers of the linker will refuse to link them, and  
there does not appear to be a way to override this anymore (this  
hasn't even been fixed in fpc trunk yet)


Jonas