On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, 26 Dec 2012, Marcos Douglas wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Michael Van Canneyt >> <mich...@freepascal.org> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, 26 Dec 2012, Marcos Douglas wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Martin Schreiber <mse00...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> Does any body work on a LLVM backend for Free Pascal? >>>>> Has anybody experience with LLVM? >>>>> Are there licensing issues? >>>>> What about the quality of the produced code? >>>>> What about compiling speed? >>>>> Thoughts? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, Martin >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The author of ExtPascal created this project: llvm-pascal >>>> http://code.google.com/p/llvm-pascal/ >>> >>> >>> >>> Please... >>> >>> Have you actually looked at the code ? It doesn't even read/write units. >>> >>> Besides actual code, it is doomed to fail in principle: >>> >>> "The purpose of LLVM-Pascal is to have a similar functionality with up to >>> 4000 lines of code" >>> >>> A stand-alone, cross-platform, object pascal compiler that produces a >>> working binary in less than 4000 lines of code ? Get real :) >>> >>> Some things are by definition not simple. >>> >>> Michael. >> >> >> Michael, >> I don't know anything about LLVM or LLVM-Pascal and no, I did not read >> any unit... >> If even Martin Schreiber has doubts and asked "thoughts" well I just >> put thoughts on the table. ;-) > > > No problem. > > But presenting it just like that makes people think that it is actually easy > or already accomplished to create something like FPC or Delphi. > > When in fact it is not, far from it. > > So I provide some perspective (OK, not without sarcasm...). > > > Michael.
All right... hehehe Well, I think everybody knows that is a huge task to implement... even for somebody of FPC core! Regards, Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel