[Pkg-pascal-devel] [Core] arm64 update - help wanted

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 15.05.2014 20:35, schrieb Abou Al Montacir:
> Hi All,
> 
> On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 19:31 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
>> [Dropping d-devel]
>>
>> On 15-05-14 03:10, Wookey wrote:
>>> Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear
>>> from you. Below is the list of languages we believe still need porting to arm64:
>>>
>>> Anyone who is interested in doing this work, or just has some idea of
>>> how much work is involved, do please pipe up (I don't know if each of
>>> these is 6 months or 6 minutes). There is a porter box available.
>>
>>> Pascal
>>
>> We have a list for that. Abou, do you know the status of upstream
>> support for arm64? Do you think it is worth it to try out building on
>> the porter box? Do you have any idea what would be involved?
> 
> As i can see in the makefile there is no arm64 in CPU_TARGET when
> grepping make files:

[...]

> However I'm not sure and thus I'm cc-ing upstream for more accurate
> answer.

FPC has no working aarch64/arm64 backend yet, so trying to build it makes currently no sense. There
is a demand for it, see http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=25042 but no work happened within the
last year.