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* debug {$packrecord C} with regard to 16 and 64-bit sizes. | * debug {$packrecord C} with regard to 16 and 64-bit sizes. | ||
* leafnode stackframereduction (and auto inlining?) | * leafnode stackframereduction (and auto inlining?) | ||
+ | * improve PowerPC port: | ||
+ | ** improve AIX abi-compatibility (e.g., we don't pass records as the AIX abi prescribes) | ||
+ | ** create a PPC-optimizer (if only a peephole optimizer for starters) | ||
+ | ** re-enable support for register variables (that's not really PPC-specific, but the PPC will benefit a *lot* of that) | ||
Information about compiler development can be found here: [[Compiler development articles]] | Information about compiler development can be found here: [[Compiler development articles]] | ||
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* port the 1.0.6/1.0.10 SunOS port to 1.9.x: [[SunOS port]] | * port the 1.0.6/1.0.10 SunOS port to 1.9.x: [[SunOS port]] | ||
* port the 1.0.6/1.0.10 QNX port to 1.9.x: [[QNX port]] | * port the 1.0.6/1.0.10 QNX port to 1.9.x: [[QNX port]] | ||
− | * | + | * improve MacOS X rtl: |
+ | * Port the missing RTL units (mainly text console handling) | ||
+ | ** Create a Mac OS X installer package definition | ||
+ | ** Try to create some kind of plug-in so the compiler can be called from XCode and Project Builder | ||
+ | ** Run the test suite and fix bugs | ||
+ | ** Fix support for importing global variables from shared libraries | ||
+ | ** Replace as many of my handwritten assembler routines with calls to libc versions, as Apple is much better at writing fast ppc assembler code that I am Do the same for the generic math routines. | ||
+ | ** Support the Apple dialect so we can use the Universal Interfaces | ||
+ | ** Finish Classic Mac OS support | ||
* create a WinCE rtl: [[WinCE port]] | * create a WinCE rtl: [[WinCE port]] | ||
* The unix ports (including derivatives as BeOS and QNX) should have a way to be rerouted to libc instead of syscalls. | * The unix ports (including derivatives as BeOS and QNX) should have a way to be rerouted to libc instead of syscalls. |
Revision as of 00:50, 5 January 2004
Here is a list of open tasks in FPC.
Compiler development
- Port the m68k code generator to 1.9.x: M68k port
- Create a MIPS code generator for 1.9.x: MIPS port
- For missing language constructs, see: Language related articles
- Working regvar support for the 1.9.x port.
- debug {$packrecord C} with regard to 16 and 64-bit sizes.
- leafnode stackframereduction (and auto inlining?)
- improve PowerPC port:
- improve AIX abi-compatibility (e.g., we don't pass records as the AIX abi prescribes)
- create a PPC-optimizer (if only a peephole optimizer for starters)
- re-enable support for register variables (that's not really PPC-specific, but the PPC will benefit a *lot* of that)
Information about compiler development can be found here: Compiler development articles
RTL development
- port the 1.0.10 BeOS port to 1.9.x: BeOS port
- port the 1.0.6/1.0.10 SunOS port to 1.9.x: SunOS port
- port the 1.0.6/1.0.10 QNX port to 1.9.x: QNX port
- improve MacOS X rtl:
- Port the missing RTL units (mainly text console handling)
- Create a Mac OS X installer package definition
- Try to create some kind of plug-in so the compiler can be called from XCode and Project Builder
- Run the test suite and fix bugs
- Fix support for importing global variables from shared libraries
- Replace as many of my handwritten assembler routines with calls to libc versions, as Apple is much better at writing fast ppc assembler code that I am Do the same for the generic math routines.
- Support the Apple dialect so we can use the Universal Interfaces
- Finish Classic Mac OS support
- create a WinCE rtl: WinCE port
- The unix ports (including derivatives as BeOS and QNX) should have a way to be rerouted to libc instead of syscalls.
FCL development
FVISION development
IDE development
- The text mode IDE needs currently a maintainer, have a look at this page for more information: Textmode IDE developement
- there are a lot of bugs to fix, have a look at the bug repository: http://www.freepascal.org/bugs.html
- get it working with FVISION
Misc
- some more tasks are listed on http://www.freepascal.org/future.html near the bottom