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

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Fri Mar 1 13:16:48 CET 2013


In our previous episode, microcode at zoho.com said:
> 
> Personally I can only hope additional interest in LLVM will lead to more
> supported platforms. I understand they don't have manpower for every
> platform but as it is the narrow focus is certainly a concern, especially
> when big projects like FreeBSD move away from gcc and make LLVM the official
> "compiler of FreeBSD". Whether it's related or not, FreeBSD seems to have
> back-burnered everything that's not Intel...

FreeBSD was always the least cross-platform of the bunch. PowerPC was still
beta when the platform was already dead to Apple.

Not surprising for an OS that started as a patchkit for 386BSD :-)



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