[fpc-devel] LLVM

[Marcos Douglas]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
<michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, 26 Dec 2012, Marcos Douglas wrote:
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>> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Martin Schreiber <mse00000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>> Does any body work on a LLVM backend for Free Pascal?
>>> Has anybody experience with LLVM?
>>> Are there licensing issues?
>>> What about the quality of the produced code?
>>> What about compiling speed?
>>> Thoughts?
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>>> Thanks, Martin
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>> The author of ExtPascal created this project: llvm-pascal
>> http://code.google.com/p/llvm-pascal/
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> Please...
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> Have you actually looked at the code ? It doesn't even read/write units.
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> Besides actual code, it is doomed to fail in principle:
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> "The purpose of LLVM-Pascal is to have a similar functionality with up to 4000 lines of code"
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> A stand-alone, cross-platform, object pascal compiler that produces a working binary in less than 4000 lines of code ? Get real :)
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> Some things are by definition not simple.
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> Michael.

Michael,
I don't know anything about LLVM or LLVM-Pascal and no, I did not read
any unit...
If even Martin Schreiber has doubts and asked "thoughts" well I just
put thoughts on the table.  ;-)

Marcos Douglas