[fpc-devel] Re: On a port of Free Pascal to the IBM 370

2012-01-19 Thread Mr Paul Robinson
--- Begin Message --- From: Paul Robinson Sven Barth writes (edited for brevity): > It's not that I'm scared that you want to tackle this it's more that I've > seen that you based your How-To on assumptions > that are wrong or at least "not good" and wanted to help you in this regard. That wa

[fpc-devel] Re: On a port of Free Pascal to the IBM 370

2012-01-19 Thread Mr Paul Robinson
WITH message^Paul.Robinson DO BEGIN Mark Morgan LLoyd wrote: > I've got reservations because of the EBCDIC issue. That's not a problem.  You write a program on the 370, the machine does the internal conversion.  Most people never notice the difference.  The standard characters are the same in

[fpc-devel] FPC on z/System

2013-08-18 Thread Mr Paul Robinson
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[fpc-devel] z370 Cross Compilation, Pass 2 of ....

2013-08-19 Thread 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 since the compiler doesn't include one as they us