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From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)  wrote on 02.11.00 in <E13rRk1-0001ut-00@the-village.bc.nu>:

> > How can I insure that the largest possible amount of my efforts benefit
> > the community at large? Hopefully this will make it easier to move to
> > C99 or any other future compiler porting project.
>
> The asm I dont know - its a hard problem.

Anyone interested in looking at the asm problem, the Free Pascal Compiler  
(GPL) seems to be able to read several different Pascal inline asm  
variants and translate them into several different output asm variants,  
but only for Intel code. That should at least give some hints about the  
problem.

MfG Kai
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