[fpc-devel] State of i8086 generation?

[Jim Leonard]

On 11/29/2013 3:45 PM, Nikolay Nikolov wrote:
> It should be functional, although it does break occasionally, so you
> should always keep the latest working version if you plan on using it. I
> run the testsuite weekly and try to fix any regressions, but
> occasionally it may take longer if I'm busy. There's a wiki page
> dedicated to the i8086 port here with more details:
>
> http://wiki.freepascal.org/DOS

Thanks, I look forward to playing with this.  I'm curious if the 
optimizations in FPC beat those in TP (my guess is very likely, since 
the optimizations in TP were only those that could be implemented in a 
single pass, with no peephole optimization).
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