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

[Sven Barth]

On 01.03.2013 18:13, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
> Am 01.03.2013 11:04, schrieb Sven Barth:
>>
>> But even if LLVM would support all targets that FPC supports the core
>> developers don't *want* to make LLVM the default.
>
> Actually, I wouldn't have any interest working on a compiler using llvm
> as a backend because it leaves only the boring front end work :) Not to
> mention the maintainance problems when depending on an external cg
> written not in pascal, the probably significant speed drop etc.

I've already thought whether I should write that you are one who is at 
most against LLVM as a backend (though I do mostly agree with you), but 
then I thought that I leave it just as general as I wrote it ^^

Regards,
Sven