There's Now Even LLVM Support For Pascal-86

[phoronix]

Phoronix: There's Now Even LLVM Support For Pascal-86

The latest programming language that can leverage using LLVM and its plethora of back-ends is Pascal-86, a language most Phoronix readers have probably never even heard of...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTczODY

[fithisux]

Vector pascal

It would be interesting if he could incorporate the Vector Pascal extensions and optimizations.

[aksdb]

It would be interesting if he could incorporate the Vector Pascal extensions and optimizations.

Then you might as well look into FreePascal. There is a branch (still in development) implementing an LLVM compiler backend. I have no idea how far that is, though. I use FreePascal "directly", since all targets I need are supported and the optimizations are fine for me :-)

[konserw]

> The latest programming language that can leverage using LLVM and its plethora of back-ends is Pascal-86, a language most Phoronix readers have probably never even heard of.
I think you mean front-ends

[name99]

> The latest programming language that can leverage using LLVM and its plethora of back-ends is Pascal-86, a language most Phoronix readers have probably never even heard of.
I think you mean front-ends

No, he means back-ends. The whole point is that the front-end is language specific, and generates IR. a "neutral" middle part optimizes the IR. Then a back-end generates CPU specific machine language.
So by creating a front-end for Pascal, one can immediately utilize the optimization architecture and run on a wide variety of CPUs, most notably one gets to run on the nightmare that is x86, or on ARM, without doing any CPU-specific work.

[konserw]

My mistake, sorry