[fpc-devel] Episode 4. Addressing and it's limits Part Two

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> steve smithers schrieb:
> 
>> Regardless of what you may believe, FreePascal is not the first 
>> compiler to be
>> implemented on 370 architecture.
> 
> I.e. you can study how they create code, before you reinvent the wheel :-)

:-) Had occurred to me as well, although obviously a lot is dictated by 
FPC's higher-level parsing and structure. Might still be very useful for 
getting calling conventions etc. right.

I've seen comment that VS/Pascal was used by IBM to write at least some 
system software, and then there is obviously P4 Pascal which has been 
ported to at least some of the readily-available S/3x0 operating systems.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
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