On 30 Sep 2010, at 11:29, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Lazarus allows to switch targets on the fly, what currently prevents an incorporation of the compiler into the IDE.
There are more things that prevent that, not in the least that almost any source code error will result in lots of memory leaks from the compiler.
For compiler development and debugging purposes it would be very nice, when all targets are covered in one compile.
It increases the compiler build time, which is not nice. And I personally, as a compiler developer and debugger, think it's very nice that everything is cleanly separated and that it's not possible to have accidental cross-target dependencies, which could result in changes in the constants/types for one target to suddenly impact a completely different target.
Until FPC is developed by perfect programmers that never make any errors, I think that minimising the way in which things can get entangled is the best way.
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