Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
- when I completed this, I would like to experiment with FPC, trying to
build a compiler
from the source tree, for a new target CPU and OS, that is, IBMZ. I know
enough about
IBM machine code, ASSEMBLER, opsys and run time systems. In contrast to
the discussions
that I saw already (targetting zLinux with ASCII codebase), I plan to
build a FPC compiler
which works on BOTH codebases - I want to know, where the issues are.
Hi Bernd, glad to see you've joined this ML.
Obviously my experience of both the IBM architecture and the innards of
FPC is limited, but my opinion is that the only achievable goal is to
first concentrate on ASCII, and later port to EBCDIC since this could
result in significant changes to the compiler frontend etc. However,
I'll obviously defer to consensus.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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