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From: Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Fun: Object Pascal on VMS
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 13:14:18 +0100
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On 04/09/2024 01:34, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 9/3/2024 8:22 PM, bill wrote:
>> On 9/3/2024 6:27 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>> Has anyone actually tried porting FPC to VMS?  It looks at first glance
>>> like a lot of it is written in Pascal, so I assume it would need to be
>>> cross-compiled initially.
>>
>> Why?  Wasn't the VMS Pascal compiler ported?  I would think it
>> would be a lot easier porting something written in Pascal
>> compared to something written in C.
> 
> If FPC source is ISO Pascal then VMS Pascal may be able to build it
> with maybe a few tweaks.
> 
> But if the FPC source is Object Pascal then VMS Pascal is of no use.
> 
> A quick glance at https://github.com/fpc/FPCSource/screams Object Pascal.
> 
> Arne
> 

I see that FPC are planning LLVM back-end support...

-- 
Chris