[fpc-pascal]Free Pascal - general commet / suggestions

[Jonas Maebe]

On 16 jan 2004, at 22:53, Paschal Mushubi wrote:

> I get it. I just thought given limited resources (time being one of 
> the precious one) an individual working on the compiler could do a 
> better job if they focused on one or two popular platforms and make 
> FPC really shine.

On the other hand, having so many platforms to support also keeps the 
code cleaner. It discourages the use of platform-specific hacks (as you 
need generic code anyway), and different processors/OS'es stresstest 
different parts of the compiler.


Jonas