Re: [fpc-pascal] LLVM Backend Support

2016-08-30 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 31/08/16 05:11, African Wild Dog wrote: Thanks for the detailed explanation. I asked about it because apparently it is a good idea to adopt the LLVM as the backend for FPC compiler. This would free the FPC's core developers from the task of maintain the backend portion of the compiler, which i

Re: [fpc-pascal] LLVM Backend Support

2016-08-30 Thread Sven Barth
Am 31.08.2016 05:12 schrieb "African Wild Dog" : > > 2016-08-19 4:55 GMT-03:00 Jonas Maebe : >> >> African Wild Dog wrote: >> >> > What is the current status of the LLVM backend support? >> >> "make cycle" works on my machine for Darwin/x86-64, and most test suite >> failures (apart from exception

Re: [fpc-pascal] LLVM Backend Support

2016-08-30 Thread African Wild Dog
2016-08-19 4:55 GMT-03:00 Jonas Maebe : > African Wild Dog wrote: > > > What is the current status of the LLVM backend support? > > "make cycle" works on my machine for Darwin/x86-64, and most test suite > failures (apart from exception handling tests if the optimisation level > is increased, see

Re: [fpc-pascal] Delphi may have Linux support next year

2016-08-30 Thread Marc Santhoff
On Di, 2016-08-30 at 11:31 -0500, Snorkl e wrote: > Big deal, we can do all that and more with Lazarus and FPC ... without waiting for "perhaps next year". Marc (using fpc/lazarus since fpc-version 1.9 or so ;) -- Marc Santhoff ___ fpc-pascal maill

Re: [fpc-pascal] Delphi may have Linux support next year

2016-08-30 Thread Snorkl e
Big deal, we can do all that and more with Lazarus and FPC On Aug 30, 2016 12:16 AM, "Anthony Walter" wrote: > I don't know it's been posted here yet, but over at the Embarcadero > community website a new roadmap has been published. > > http://community.embarcadero.com/article/news/16418- > prod

Re: [fpc-pascal] Delphi may have Linux support next year

2016-08-30 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-08-30 06:15, Anthony Walter wrote: > What might be interesting is if the Delphi command line compiler could run > on AMD64 Linux, but that's yet to be seen. [I would assume your message is off-topic, so I set the reply-to of this message to FPC-Other] I doubt it will actually run on Linux