michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote the following on 30/01/12 14:49:53: > I think the reason for producing an ASCII version first is very simple: > All FPC sources - including the compiler - are in ASCII encoding.
I don't understand this statement - ASCII and EBCDIC are just human representations of a computer's internal code. I write my programs in the Latin (or Roman) alphabet and the computer does the rest. When I was writing VS/Pascal programs I used the same source code as input to VS/Pascal on the mainframe and to Virtual Pascal on the PC. Unless the FP source code is to be fed into a mainframe compiler like IBM's VS/Pascal or the Stanford compiler then the first step is surely to write a backend for the (eg PC) compiler to produce 370 assembler code. Producing EBCDIC rather than ASCII sounds a trivial part of the task. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
