Open tasks
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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