[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#1101421: fpc: Please consider packaging git snapshot

[Peter B]

On 27/03/2025 09:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I will also look into bootstrapping for other architectures using the LLVM
> backend such as s390x and sparc64 although I have no experience whether
> this would actually work or whether fpc would still need some shim code to
> work on these architectures through the LLVM backend.

Hi John,

F.Y.I

I asked about that idea on the fpc mailing list last October and got

"The LLVM port does not help in that regard at all, because the platform 
specific backends are still required for some low level stuff."

https://lists.freepascal.org/pipermail/fpc-pascal/2024-October/062468.html


Regards,
Peter B