Hi Dennis, Why are you so sure they will not be porting the compiler to 64Bit.
I agree that Borland are not over overly quick to bring out enhancements to their Pascal compiler, but I have not seen any indication that it will be abandoned yet.
As I mentioned the D8 compiler will be Native compiler and it will not compile to an intermediate level language or generate interpretted code, AFAIK.
The whole point of .NET is for it to be platform independent. Assuming Borland's .NET compiler compiles proper .NET interpretted code, I can see not reason why a 64Bit .NET could not automagically recompile the interpreted code to 64Bit using a JIT. Hell that sort of thing has been possible on IBM AS400 machines since the 80's ( no source code required either ).
Anyway I am sure the GPC guys on this list, don't want to hear about Borland's future compiler. So if you would like to continue this dicussion privately, send me an email.
Dominique Louis.
Dennis Landi wrote:
Ok, then they are getting out of the NATIVE COMPILER BIZ.
Dominique, how do you feel about the fact that you will not be able to port your native Win32 code to Win64?
You ok with that? If you get into 32-bit .NET that calls 32-bit unmanaged pascal code, you will *NOT* be able to do that on 64-bit windows.
-dennis
----- Original Message ----- *From:* Dominique Louis <mailto:Dominique@SavageSoftware.com.au> *To:* Dennis Landi <mailto:dennis@dennislandi.com> *Cc:* gpc@gnu.de <mailto:gpc@gnu.de> *Sent:* Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:45 AM *Subject:* Re: Gnu Pascal running on 64-bit Linux or Windows? Hi Dennis, 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. >>I don't think the above statement is accurate. >>So they currently are not getting out of the native compiler biz. At >>least not with their Pascal product.