On 09/01/17 20:30, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 9 Jan 2017, Giuliano Colla wrote:
While installing FPC on a new platform, and looking for the appropriate seed
compiler, a question came to my mind.
As compiling FPC from sources requires a previous FPC version, how was
compiled the very first version of FPC?
The point 4. is correct. The first version was done in Turbo Pascal, then
eventually the compiler became able to compile itself. Until 1.0(?) I
think it was still possible to build the compiler with TP7. Later the TP7
compatibility was dropped, and since then FPC is only developed in itself.
It's written on Wikipedia BTW:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Pascal#Early_years
And ultimately I think that TP was written in Z80 assembler, later
converted to 8086.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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