[fpc-pascal] Working Free Pascal android JNI example

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Tue Dec 7 17:50:56 CET 2010



On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
>>> 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.
>>
>> In fact I think this is one of the more easy things.
>> The main problem seems to me that you need to support things like pointers,
>> which is something deeply embedded in Pascal.
>
> I think the "suitable RTL" is a reference to an earlier discussion about
> this subject, where this (pointers) was also said, and that maintaining an
> native RTL without pointers was not desirable.

I think 'RTl' is way too limited in scope. Pointers are used in 
many many pascal sources.

Michael.



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