Tomas Hajny wrote:
On Mon, September 2, 2013 10:37, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
Am 01.09.2013 21:42, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
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I notice that Paul has added updates to
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/ZSeries over the last week or so but
haven't had time to read them in detail yet.
Looking at Paul's articles in Wiki, I've noticed that he has used 2.6.0 or
2.6.2 as his basis. This doesn't look like a good idea to me, because new
platforms are always added in trunk and thus the modifications will need
to be updated when merging them to trunk. Moreover, I believe that the
latest additions related to UnicodeString support, etc., may be especially
useful to z370 when tackling the EBCDIC versus ASCII challenge. Just my 2
cents...
On the other hand, since he was in the position of trying to work out
how everything hung together without feeling that he was already "an
insider" I think that he might be forgiven for working on a stable
version. This is, after all, how the MIPS target was implemented (it's
regrettable that it wasn't folded back into the trunk a bit more
promptly, which might have saved work).
I've just been reading through his recent additions to the wiki and I
note that he recognises that (comparatively) recent additions to the
architecture might be useful. If he's actually making progress on this
it would be very interesting to have a status report.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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