In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: > > Jonas Maebe wrote: > > > >> ...So it's just a stopgap solution for them until they have time to build > >> their own ARM compiler... > > > > wow! The former state of the art compiler vendor > > (Borland/Inprise/Borland/Codegear/Emb...) is not able to produce a compiler > > of its own ;-) > > Going from a completely i386-specific code generator to an ARM code > generator is a lot of work, especially if you at the same time also have > to create a 64 bit code generator. It also took FPC several years to > migrate from it's i386-specific design to a more generic one, and to > subsequently add x86-64 and ARM support.
And keep in mind that for Embarcadero it is not just a codegenerator, but also (at least) assembler, linker and probably debugger. (see the remark about XCode) _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel