On 30.01.2012 19:36, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Sven Barth wrote:
I would very strongly suggest cross-compile fpc on Linux/Windows
using a version
that emits, not gas assembler but 370 assembler. I will be talking
about gas vs
370 assembler later. The assembler output can be in ASCII or EBCDIC
as rvmartin
said it's just a character encoding. The advantage is that you only
need to
upload a text file(s). Feed it into the OS assembler and link
programs and you
have a 370 load module.
Once a initial port to 370 has been made and the assembler output
generator is implemented (which means that the compiler can basically
generate 370 capable assembler files) this is rather easy as FPC can
generate "link on target" scripts (and AFAIK also "assemble on target").
Assuming that the target operating system has any concept of an
executable script. Steve's already told us that you can't generate a
binary externally, and it might turn out that the compiler will have to
generate a JCL (or comparable) deck which is then processed in some way
on the target rather than being executed directly.
The link script does not need to be executable by itself. In the end it
would be sufficient to just include the commands in it that are needed
to assemble and link the final application and then execute these by
hand (in the worst case...).
Regards,
Sven
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