[Lazarus] Delphi post-XE3 roadmap

[Sven Barth]

Am 22.08.2012 12:08, schrieb Michael Schnell:
> On 08/22/2012 11:44 AM, Sven Barth wrote:
>>
>> They plan to use LLVM (though this is not mentioned in that roadmap
>> article).
>>
> Regarding the multiple request I read in the past in the FPC forums to
> move FPC to use a "standard" backend (such as LLVM), this seems like a
> rather logical move (also regarding that it seems to be rather undoable
> to use GNU as a backend for an Object Pascal compiler).

Free Pascal will never move solely to a backend like LLVM. A part of the 
reason is that not all platform-os combinations are supported by LLVM 
that are supported by FPC. Also Florian does not look like he wants to 
give up fiddling around in the backend ^^

Regards,
Sven