3 comments:
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1) Floating point support is necessary for the compiler to compile/build
itself, because floating point number support needs to be available in the
compiler itself (otherwise source files containing floating point numbers
cannot be processed by the compiler).
"
Why would a basic/core compiler which does not support floating point
numbers need floating point numbers ?
Doesn't make much sense to me.
Surely free pascal can be reduced so far to integers only.
I can only imagine math.pas containing PI but math.pas should not be part of
a basic/core compiler anyway.
So this argument of yours seems to make little sense unless you can give a
very convincing example of "floats" being used inside the core of free
pascal compiler.
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2) Needs of different users vary considerably. A user interested in
compiling a simple console 'hello world' program using procedural Pascal
needs only unit System and nothing else, a user creating 'hello world' in
a GUI window using Object Pascal has much broader needs (broader than the
compiler itself).
"
No, calling the windows gui requires a windows api. It has nothing to do
with compiler technology.
So again this argument of yours makes little sense.
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3) Everyone is free to create a special installation package for his own
needs, but I can hardly imagine something like that becoming part of the
general FPC distribution.
"
The mini-fpc should be a "side-project" for those people interested in
compiler technology only and not everything else.
Bye,
Skybuck.
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