Re: [fpc-devel] progress of freepascal for mips

2012-06-05 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
> > From: Mark Morgan Lloyd >To: fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org >Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 6:38 AM >Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] progress of freepascal for mips > >microc...@zoho.com wrote: >> On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:56:06 -0700 (PDT) >> Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: >> >

Re: [fpc-devel] Question about Currency support

2012-06-05 Thread Fuxin Zhang
> > Fuxin Zhang wrote on Tue, 05 Jun 2012: > >> Is it the test program taddcurr.pp cannot work for non-x86 systems? > > It works on SPARC at least: > http://www.freepascal.org/testsuite/cgi-bin/testsuite.cgi?action=3&run1id=113194&testfileid=99 > > It doesn't work on ppc32 currently, but that's due

Re: [fpc-devel] progress of freepascal for mips

2012-06-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
microc...@zoho.com wrote: On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:56:06 -0700 (PDT) Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: You are right, the machine (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/560/specs.html) doesn't have a MIPS processor, but an IBM's Power6. BTW, does anyone know which Linux distribution runs on that ma

Re: [fpc-devel] progress of freepascal for mips

2012-06-05 Thread Jonas Maebe
microcode wrote on Tue, 05 Jun 2012: The best OS is the one IBM made for it, AIX which is a POSIX UNIX with IBM extensions (and great doc!). It's true that IBM has great documentation. But AIX has quite a few quirks compared to other Unices, even commercial/traditional big iron ones like

Re: [fpc-devel] Question about Currency support

2012-06-05 Thread Jonas Maebe
Fuxin Zhang wrote on Tue, 05 Jun 2012: Is it the test program taddcurr.pp cannot work for non-x86 systems? It works on SPARC at least: http://www.freepascal.org/testsuite/cgi-bin/testsuite.cgi?action=3&run1id=113194&testfileid=99 It doesn't work on ppc32 currently, but that's due to a bug

Re: [fpc-devel] progress of freepascal for mips

2012-06-05 Thread Sven Barth
Am 05.06.2012 02:43, schrieb Leonardo M. Ramé: From: Jonas Maebe To: Leonardo M. Ramé; FPC developers' list Sent: Monday, June 4, 2012 7:19 PM Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] progress of freepascal for mips On 04 Jun 2012, at 23:56, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: You are r