[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Porting linux to pascal, would it be possible ?

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Micha Nelissen said:
> >> Also note that Linux depends so heavily on GCC that I can't see it being 
> >> compiled even by another C compiler. There are so many gcc (part of 
> > 
> > To be honest, I doubt it would be that different if we did it with FPC,
> > seeing how much problems Delphi already has to compile FPC code.
> 
> Indeed, but my point was that even if C was designed for writing 
> operating systems, Linux still uses a lot of extensions (and rightly so, 
> it makes it safer and better). So, if they use extensions for C, then a 
> couple of extensions to fpc would certainly make it very suitable as 
> well for this task.

Correct, and discussing what is missing or could be useful is more important
then echoing "C is better", "Pascal is better". That was more or less the
gist of my first reply.

I really would like to make this point again: the si_pr* stuff might be a
good candidate to testdrive FPC in this regard.