microc...@zoho.com wrote:
On Thu, 10 May 2012 14:07:47 +0200 (CEST) "Tomas Hajny" wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2012 13:22, microcode wrote:
Sun makes awfully nice boxes and Solaris is a very nice development
platform. I hope the guys will keep FPC going on Solaris. There are
many Solaris 10 on Sun fans.
FPC support of individual platforms depends on availability of volunteers
interested and capable of supporting these platforms. FPC can target
really many platforms nowadays, but this increasing number cannot be
supported with constant number of developers. Someone from the Sun fans
has to step in, otherwise the support cannot be guaranteed in the long
term.
Yeah, that's obvious. I'm sure anybody who was capable would help. All I
can offer at this point is development systems but that doesn't seem to be
the problem. How much platform dependent code is there? I would think if
the main product works on i386 or AMD64 for example then there isn't much
to do except build on the other targets?
Is it a matter of not having developers for the specific platform or not
having anybody to build it for a specific platform?
You might find the fpc-devel mailing list interesting, although I think
that everybody would admit that there is a shortage of documentation for
the entrails of the compiler.
You might also find looking at the fpcsrc/compiler and fpcsrc/rtl trees
in the source interesting, noting in particular the way that the latter
at least /attempts/ to separate OS- and CPU-specific code.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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