[Lazarus] Delphi post-XE3 roadmap

[Chavoux Luyt]

Sorry for a newbie question, but how is FPC connected to gcc anyways?
Doesn't it translate the (object) pascal code directly into the
various machine languages for the different platforms (Or into
assembler and then machine language)? Pascal, only needs a one-pass
compiler, making it by nature much faster to compile than C based
languages, so why would FPC use anything C or C++ (except for external
function calls to the OS API)?