[fpc-pascal] Working Free Pascal android JNI example

[Sven Barth]

Am 07.12.2010 12:12, schrieb Matt Emson:
> On 07/12/2010 10:46, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
>> Still not ideal, however.
>
> Well, no. As Android targets any processor - not just ARM. Indeed, there
> are Intel based versions. Native is bad, and only come in to existence
> to compete with other platforms with purely native compilation - and
> then purely to counteract criticisms on the performance of games and
> multimedia apps. Davlik was created for a reason - compile once, run on
> multiple targets. Would it not be a better solution to create a Dalvik
> back-end? As I understand it, Dalvik is very, far from a traditional
> stack based Java VM and closer to a traditional register based processor
> in design. I know little about it, but the benefits of Android, as a
> platform, are completely lost when one focuses on native compilation.

I don't see it that problematic to create a Dalvik code generator (or a 
normal Java or CIL one). The biggest problem is to create a suitable RTL 
and to be able to use the classes that are provided by the VM.

Regards,
Sven