Hi Gnu Pascal list,
we're currently using IBM's xpc pascal compiler on IBM AIX 5.3.
New machines are being shipped with AIX 6, and IBM's xpc is no longer supported there - for the time being, it actuall works (the xpc frontend generated intermediate code, and the second stage compiler still groks it).
Management is not happy about this, as it might break any day, and I have been asked to "provide GPC" on AIX 6.
Googling seems to suggest that the earliest release of GCC to work on AIX 6 is gcc 4.2.4
This mailing list's archive suggests that GPC and GCC 4.2 do not yet work together, due to larger efforts required due to backend changes (Waldek's mail from March 12, 2008).
I reported this to management ("there is no GPC on AIX 6"), and they came back with the question "if we pay one of the GPC developers to do a GPC port to a recent GCC, to support AIX 6, how much would that cost?".
Here we go - I'm posing this question to you. Is one of you capable and willing to make GPC work on AIX 6? And if yes, what would your conditions be (estimated time to do this, estimated costs)?
(I can't promise anything, but will report back to management and they will decide...)
thanks,
gert