[Info-vax] Fun: Object Pascal on VMS

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Thu Sep 5 08:10:12 EDT 2024


On 2024-09-04, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Sep 2024 15:10:49 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>
>> [LLVM] will definitely help with the optimization of the code generated
>> by FPC. It is significantly worse than what GCC/LLVM/MSVC++.
>
> Also, I came across this project called QBE <https://c9x.me/compile/>. 
> It?s nowhere near as ambitious as LLVM, but it looks interesting for some 
> smaller-scale uses.
>
> There?s a standard Debian package available. Also, it doesn?t insist on 
> strict SSA. ;)

Looks interesting, but it only has a limited number of backends and
they are all 64-bit.

I am always looking for a much lighter version of LLVM but it needs
to have a good range of backends available, including the 32-bit
architectures.

Simon.

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