On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, steve smithers wrote:
Finally, the suggestions about developing FreePascal/370 as an ASCII compiler
seem somewhat pointless to me. Why would anyone want to use an ASCII compiler
on an EBCDIC system? I accept fully that producing an EBCDIC version will
present problems, but if this compiler is actually going to be used by anyone,
these have to be overcome.
I think the reason for producing an ASCII version first is very simple:
All FPC sources - including the compiler - are in ASCII encoding.
Whatever is made, the hypothetical compiler will need to understand ASCII in
the first place, or it cannot recompile itself or it's RTL...
Michael.
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