[Lazarus] 2nd call (PPC needed for MAc) [Re: Beta testers needed / Lazarus with Editor-Macro-Script]

[Martin]

On 07/12/2012 16:50, Henry Vermaak wrote:
> On 7 December 2012 15:15, Martin <lazarus at mfriebe.de> wrote:
>> Do you have a list (not a huge doc, just a few lines) where the ABI differ?
> No, you will have to compare the documents yourself.  I believe linux
> follows the sysv abi as specified by IBM, but there may be some
> deviations.
>
> When I implemented the ARM version, I only had oabi operating systems
> (with softfloat) and fpc didn't even have working eabi support.  That
> has changed now, and the code will have to be modified for armhf (with
> vfp3) using eabi to support most of the latest arm devices.  This will
> be a more invasive change, though
Ok, currently unlikely, that I will go that far

> Also note that I never used classes with pascalscript, so that
> probably never worked.
Yes self is ignored. I just queried info in another mail.

>    I still find this exercise a bit crazy,
> though, since all this knowledge is already in the compiler, which
> could harness it to implement an "invoke" function, which would mean
> that pascalscript won't need any platform specific code.
>
Would be nice.

And once that is provided by a released  fpc....
But until then, I can either fix it this way. Or scrap the 
EditorMacroScript stuff.