Open Source BlackBox compiler - Win64 version?

From: CFB Software <"CFB>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 10:10:02 +1030

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rex Couture [mailto:rex{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Sent: Wednesday, 8 December 2004 1:08 AM
> To: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Subject: Re: Procedure types and An extended discussion of
> extensibility
>
>
> At 05:52 PM 12/6/2004 -0500, Wojtek Skulski wrote:
>
> >Rex e-mail brings another point that I wanted to mention for
> a while.
> >Once BB is released with source, some good soul may consider
> improving
> >the language. We may soon be dealing with Extended CP, Enhanced CP,
> >CP++, and who knows what dialects. Hope this will not happen, but
> >from the spirit of recent discussions it looks to me some folks are
> >itching to improve what we have got now.
>

I'd be surprised if anybody was considering spending the necessary time
to mess around with the language apart from for the purpose of academic
exercises. The source code for the Gardens Point Component Pascal
compiler has been available for some years now and I haven't seen any
evidence of 3rd-parties wanting to alter it.

For me the benefit of having source code for a system is being able to
confirm whether a bug is a bug or not and possibly being able to develop
a short-term fix for it, or getting a greater insight into how to
develop a workaround.

However, if anybody is itching to do some development work on the
compiler, I can recommend a project which should not involve changing
the language, and is very likely to appeal to the typical BB user (e.g.
physicist, engineer etc.) dealing with large numbers.

The proposed project is to develop a version of the compiler to exploit
the recent 64-bit processors from Intel and AMD that are supported by
the upcoming 64-bit version of Windows. The idea comes from observing
much heated discussion in the Borland newsgroups lately by Delphi (i.e.
Object Pascal) developers who are disappointed that there is no ETA for
a true 64-bit version of Delphi.

--
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com
 
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