[Info-vax] Fun: Object Pascal on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/4/2024 8:14 AM, Chris Townley wrote:
> 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.
> 
> I see that FPC are planning LLVM back-end support...

That could potentially help a bit with the hypothetical VMS port.

It will definitely help with the optimization of the code generated
by FPC. It is significantly worse than what GCC/LLVM/MSVC++.

Arne