Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 07 Feb 2008, at 12:46, Matt Emson wrote:
I have always followed the belief that, whilst FPC does what it does
very well, sometimes simplification isn't a bad thing. Portability
across platforms - with caveats, obviously, would be a nice addition.
At this time, the compiler cannot supporting systems which lack
certain architectural features (e.g., several internal transformations
introduce address/pointer expressions in code which does not contain
any pointers whatsoever at the Pascal level). While it is possible to
override these, it would be much more difficult then just disabling a
couple of things in the parser for certain targets.
Okay, this is becoming off topic - sorry. To support Flash, I would
assume a cross compiler would be used. Does that still have the same
issues? I don't think a natively (as in Flash VM) compiled compiler
would really do anything useful. All the Flash/Flex stuff
Adobe/Macromedia produced is in Java pretty much. Others have used C or
Java too. All tools target, but don't run on, the VM.
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