Dennis Landi wrote:
Evidently, although Borland has ported Delphi to .Net, they have no plans to create a 64-bit native compiler. In fact, they have licensed the .Net compiler from MS. They seem to be getting out of the native compiler biz altogether.
So, I bet you can guess my next question (Ok, well it was in the msg title).
Does Gnu Pascal run on 64-bit Linux (SuSe or Redhat, etc.) or 64-bit Windows on either the Itanium 64 or AMD 64 chips?
In short: currently gpc does not compile for AMD 64, Itanium 64 is experimental (I assume that you are interested in runing gpc compiled programs, gpc itself should have no problem running on 64 bit machines as a cross-compiler).
In detail: gpc shares code generator (about 80% of the compiler) with gcc. To make compiler for AMD 64 one has to apply a patch to gcc -- only then one can test if the compiler works. Debian has experimental version of gpc for Itanium 64 -- currently 9 gpc tests fails and 3577 works, so there are known problems. Also Itanium 64 version had probably very little (if any) real use, so new problems are very likely to show up.
--- Waldek Hebisch hebisch@math.uni.wroc.pl