rochus-keller/FreePascal
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FreePascal grammar, lexer, parser and code browser
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…would suggest. I can't imagine that anyone still has a complete understanding of it. See e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/FreePascal/blob/master/Read... .
comment by Rochus · 2025-11-03 · in Ask HN: Anyone else use FreePascal as their low level language? -
…corrected in Modula and Oberon. The compiler is huge and apparently difficult to maintain (see e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/freepascal/ ). The resulting, optimized x86 code achieves about 70% of GCC compiled C code (see e.g.…
comment by Rochus · 2025-10-24 · in Ask HN: Anyone else use FreePascal as their low level language? -
…have to analyze the source code directly myself, and so I started to build tools for this purpose ( https://github.com/rochus-keller/FreePascal ). FWIW you may want to check out the fcl-passrc package[0] which provides units for scanning…
comment by badsectoracula · 2023-07-09 · in Why use Pascal? -
…have to analyze the source code directly myself, and so I started to build tools for this purpose ( https://github.com/rochus-keller/FreePascal ). I read somewhere that there are issues with higher optimization levels. Can you confirm that?
comment by Rochus · 2023-07-08 · in Why use Pascal?