[fpc-pascal] Object pascal language compatiblity - was: Does FPC 2.8.0 can actually still be called Pascal ?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Henry Vermaak wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 09:23:29AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Sven Barth wrote:
>>
>>>> An llvm target will move the optimisation burden away from fpc, which
>>>> would be very interesting.
>>> While we would welcome a LLVM backend it is basically a consent in
>>> the development team that this would only be an additional
>>> alternative to the normal backends FPC provides.
>> LLVM's target list doesn't look particularly brilliant compared with
>> FPC's :-/
> 
> How do you mean?  It supports more architectures than FPC, as far as I
> can see (http://llvm.org/Features.html).  They also have a C backend
> that you can use for targets that they don't support.

I'm not denigrating it and I note Sven's points, but no 68K, no AVR, no 
JVM. "Brilliant" in this context would have been every 32/64-bit 
architecture that has a compatible assembler (presumably, GNU as).

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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