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Re: Pascal front-end integration
On Mar 1, 2005, at 9:46 PM, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
Hugh? I see the argument that another front-end will exercise more of
the back-end, since
chances are that it will trigger code paths in it which other
languages don't use.
However I can hardly see any Pascal language feature/construct, which
wouldn't be already
covered by the C++ or Java ABI.
Actually Pascal excises non-local gotos along with more than that and
nested
functions (which is used a lot in Ada yes but another language will
catch bugs
which can be found easier and the Ada testsuite is not really complete
with
a lot of bugs fixed lately).
See I replied, but I wanted to put you straight on a technical detail
which
you keep on forgetting.
-- Pinski