Jeppe Johansen schrieb: > I would be interested in knowing whether it would be feasible to create > DSP backends for FPC.
As usual: a matter of time. > I recently had the experience of using a TMS320C26 > which probably has to be programmed in assembler due to the limits of > the instruction set. But I hear newer DSPs use instruction sets geared > alot more towards highlevel compilers > > Michael: > Cortex A8 runs ARMv7A. All the Interlocked* functions in the ARM RTL > already have implementations for >ARMv6 instructions(ldrex/strex) which > is pretty much what the architecture manual wrote as example code Yes, but the code is not selected dynamically: if one compiles for armv5 but runs it on a armv6+, the armv6 doesn't use the new instructions. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
