[fpc-devel] FPC Language Specification

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Mon May 20 10:44:01 CEST 2019



On Mon, 20 May 2019, J. Gareth Moreton wrote:

>
> While there is documentation online that can easily explain all of this, I 
> find it's only truly useful if you are looking up details on a specific 
> feature - for example, the standard of expanding intermediate expressions to 
> the CPU word size has caught many programmers off-guard.  Having it in a 
> single specification means that the curious can read through it in its 
> entirety to learn of these nuances before falling foul of them.
>
> What are your thoughts?

Maybe start from the official ISO pascal or extended pascal specs and
rewrite that to match the compiler implementation.

Michael.


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