On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 09:23:29AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Sven Barth wrote:
> 
> >>An llvm target will move the optimisation burden away from fpc, which
> >>would be very interesting.
> >
> >While we would welcome a LLVM backend it is basically a consent in
> >the development team that this would only be an additional
> >alternative to the normal backends FPC provides.
> 
> LLVM's target list doesn't look particularly brilliant compared with
> FPC's :-/

How do you mean?  It supports more architectures than FPC, as far as I
can see (http://llvm.org/Features.html).  They also have a C backend
that you can use for targets that they don't support.

Henry
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