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

[Sven Barth]

Am 08.02.2012 15:16, schrieb rvmartin2 at ntlworld.com:
> Hans-Peter Diettrich<DrDiettrich1 at aol.com>  wrote the following on 08/02/12 11:28:49:
>> Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb:
>>> 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.
>>
>> This should not be a problem. It's up to the code generator to define
>> its own strategies for allocating space for code and data items, and how
>> to address them in generated code. The parse tree tells the back-end
>> *what* should be done, the back-end then has to know *how* to do it.
>>
>>> Might still be very useful for
>>> getting calling conventions etc. right.
>>
>> The implementation of calling conventions is up to the code generator as
>> well. You can invent your own conventions, and map them to any
>> predefined one. As a starting point it's sufficient to support only one
>> calling convention, the one for system calls. More conventions for
>> calling other external libraries may be required, depending on the
>> target OS conventions.
>
> Where can I find details of the input to the back-end?
> I'd like to have a crack at generating assembler code for VM/SP.

Best (and AFAIK only) available source: the compiler's source code. Sorry.

Regards,
Sven