[Info-vax] First ship poll: When will the first native x86-64 compilers ship ?

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On Thu, 2022-04-14 at 19:16 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> > 
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> > Yes, I believe Pascal's one of the easiest languages to build a
> > compiler for. TurboPascal was fantastic for what it did back in its
> > day.
> 
> TP was very fast and used few resources. Probably easy to make
> compiler for. And then Anders Hejlsberg was also pretty good.

Amen to that :-D

> The problem with VMS Pascal for VMS x86-64 is different, because
> it is not really a new compiler but bolting different pieces
> (frontend, GEM to LLVM, LLVM) together. That sounds simple
> but there can be a lot of devils in the details.

I'm pretty sure I could bootstrap a toy language compiler using just a
C compiler and a disassembler for the object files to work out the
format the output object code needs to be in. Something for me to do on
a rainy day one day. 
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