[fpc-pascal] FPC for virtual machines?

[Marco Alvarado]

Thanks for your replies. I'll do an Object Pascal specialiced
translator and take advantage of the open-source and SDK's compilers
for those virtual machines. I'll make it as compatible with FPC's RTL
and the LCL as possible.

-Marco

2008/2/7, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>:
>
> On 07 Feb 2008, at 10:55, Matt Emson wrote:
>
> > Jonas Maebe wrote:
> >>
> >> On 06 Feb 2008, at 22:48, Marco Alvarado wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'd love to create compilers for those virtual
> >>> platforms.
> >>
> >> Java will be hard, because it doesn't support plain pointers. I
> >> don't known ActionScript. Anyway, you're welcome to try :)
> >
> > Flash is a virtual machine. Flash 9 is a complete re-write. There
> > are Flash assemblers available.
>
> Whether or not it's a virtual machine, and whether or not an
> assembler is available is not that important. What usually matters
> most is whether you can map all FPC concepts (or at least the ones
> you want to support) on the target (virtual or not) architecture.
>
>
> Jonas
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