Compiler development articles

The current FPC version under developement is 1.9.x. Compiler internals are documented at the evolving FPC internals page.

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FPC internals

Enable new style smartlinking: iin i_*.pas add tf_smartlink_sections to the flags field of the platform description record Also add --gc-sections to the call to ld.

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Processor dependent

i386

PIC information

PowerPC

PPC Calling conventions