On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 00:16 +0200, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Hi everybody,
since GPC development has mostly stalled, I've thought about if and how its development could be continued. Here are my current thoughts about it. Since the text is quite long, I put it on the web: http://fjf.gnu.de/gpc-future.html
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I still use GPC regularly when I need portable code for command-line programs (Windows and Linux). I would use it in preference to C for my embedded programming (firmware stuff for Texas Instruments AR7 ADSL modem/routers) if not for the huge executable sizes.
I am not that great with low level or complex compiler stuff, but I would be willing to help with the development in whatever way I can (as long as I am not in over my head).
My one concern would be about producing yet another Pascal object model that is not compatible with any of the existing ones. But I guess that, if the old BP model is still supported so that existing code would compile, that would be fine.