Sven Barth wrote:
[This should have gone to the list, instead of Florian directly]
On 18.10.2012 20:55, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
> Am 18.10.2012 13:24, schrieb Pierre Free Pascal:
>> Are you resurrecting m68k port?
>>
>> Just a guess, of course...
>
> Too late, but it would have been my guess as well. The tale misses only
> the very sad part about the two children who never made it to life ;(
I see that I should have waited a bit longer then ^^
Yes... that could be mentioned as well... (and what about "vis"? )
though Itanium looks in my opinion more dead for real than M68k
(considering the existance of Coldfire)... and Alpha is also only
available if you can find a legacy system
I'd love to see an Itanium port, but I don't think it's realistic in
view of the limited number of manufacturers shipping systems based on it
and the known difficulty of filling the bundles. I haven't had a chance
of looking at GCC output to see how well their backend does, but the
last I heard it was difficult to get even 75% utilisation. Add to that
the the opcode set etc. is weird: SPARC-style register windows with none
of the charm.
To my surprise I've got an Alpha system, but my understanding is that
nobody's making silicon any more. Since Chinese manufacturers appear to
have settled on MIPS as their non-x86 of choice, I don't see much future
for it.
Vis, LLVM, and- of course- the Android and JVM ports are obviously
valuable. Apart from that the only architecture that FPC doesn't support
is the IBM S/390.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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