[fpc-devel] On a port of Free Pascal to the IBM 370

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Michael Schnell wrote:

> AFAI learned:
> I suppose the code generator should be doable, regarding that there already 
> are several supported CPUs. At least a working compiler might come into 
> existence in a decent amount of time, adding optimizations is another 
> project.
>
> OTOH I suppose that a porting the RTL to a mainframe OS will not be easy and 
> without this the compiler is quite useless.

I do not think it is more difficult than any other OS.

Michael.