[Lazarus] Free-pascal question

[Sven Barth]

Am 07.03.2013 10:45, schrieb Chavoux Luyt:
> 1. How good is Lazarus/fpc for embedded programming (compared to C)? 
> It will probably be on a (custom-made) device with ARM/Atmel-based 
> chipset (with or without an OS - will this make a difference?).
I can't tell you how good or bad it is, but there are quite some boards 
supported already by FPC. You can take a look here for the current list: 
http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/rtl/embedded/arm/
> 2. I remember that the original Turbo Pascal (and Delphi) could use 
> in-line (i386) assembler. Is this still possible with 
> Lazarus/free-pascal and for other chipsets like Atmel/ARM?
FPC supports inline assembly for each supported target except the JVM 
ones. Of course you need to write in the correct assembly language for 
each CPU (and maybe differentiate with {$ifdef CPUXYZ} if you want to 
support multiple processors).

As a sidenote: For pure Pascal development (and I consider embedded 
development part of this) I suggest you to use the fpc-pascal list in 
the future.

Regards,
Sven