Re: [fpc-devel] Re. z370 Cross Compilation, Pass 2 of ....

2013-08-20 Thread Sven Barth
On 20.08.2013 16:54, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Apologies that I've broken the thread, but some messages don't get through our gateway- for some reason I'm seeing the message I'm quoting arriving as an encoded attachment. [Sven said] > If you'd now only explain what a cross-reference tool is I mi

[fpc-devel] Re. z370 Cross Compilation, Pass 2 of ....

2013-08-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Apologies that I've broken the thread, but some messages don't get through our gateway- for some reason I'm seeing the message I'm quoting arriving as an encoded attachment. [Sven said] > If you'd now only explain what a cross-reference tool is I might even > understand what you're trying to te

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Porting FPC to IBM zArch

2013-08-20 Thread Sven Barth
Am 20.08.2013 13:52 schrieb "Hans-Peter Diettrich" : > > Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb: > > >> Apropos Paul's comments of doing a good cross-reference and handling compiler directives, I think the thing that is likely to give real problems is the {$if defined() } form... > > > I'm not sure whether $if

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Porting FPC to IBM zArch

2013-08-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb: Apropos Paul's comments of doing a good cross-reference and handling compiler directives, I think the thing that is likely to give real problems is the {$if defined() } form... I'm not sure whether $if defined() works with ordinary const

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Porting FPC to IBM zArch

2013-08-20 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb: Apropos Paul's comments of doing a good cross-reference and handling compiler directives, I think the thing that is likely to give real problems is the {$if defined() } form... I'm not sure whether $if defined() works with ordinary constants. The $DEFINE and CONST

Re: [fpc-devel] z370 Cross Compilation, Pass 2 of ....

2013-08-20 Thread Sven Barth
Am 19.08.2013 13:00, schrieb Mr Paul Robinson: Based on information and belief, on Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:37:43 +0200, Sven Barth wrote to the Free Pascal list: > I don't get what you're trying to say here. I mean I spent the better part of a year writing a cross-reference tool for Free Pascal

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Porting FPC to IBM zArch

2013-08-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Florian Klämpfl wrote: Am 19.08.2013 10:37, schrieb Sven Barth: Adding a new platform to FPC is not cheesecake and you should know how the compiler's backend work. Just looking at the output of a target won't help you! I'd hope that Paul isn't naive enough to make that mistake :-) On the othe