Well, the Borland dialects surely are for the Intel processor. Mac Pascal (which started this thread) obviously not. So, which others?
Mac is moving to Intel, so Mac Pascal will be fore Intel next year.
Anyway, we didn't write those other compilers. We try to be compatible to some of them, yes. And sometimes this might be the only way for users of those dialects to continue to use their codebase on another system.
Something that those of us with hundreds of thousands of lines of "Pascal" code in one of those dialects very much appreciate!
Of course, I hope they will change some dirty dialect features to more clean/standard ones in the long run. But this cannot easily be done in a short time (as when Apple now decides to change architectures). I can understand those concerns, having gone through it myself (coming from BP).
Indeed. It is always best to make one major change at a time, so for example, first move from the proprietary compiler to GPC, and then after that is working, then move from the proprietary language to Extended Pascal, presuming of course there is some benefit in doing that.
Enjoy, Peter.