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olle 22 years ago
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@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ and add these options:
 -al	# dont delete asm output
 -al	# dont delete asm output
 -s	# dont generate executable
 -s	# dont generate executable
 
 
+Note that at the moment, FPC yells about not supporting 
+creating of executables at the platform, nevertheless
+it creates all asm files to produce an application on the Mac.
 
 
 
 
 Use MPW to assemble and link the output from FreePascal
 Use MPW to assemble and link the output from FreePascal
@@ -29,4 +32,22 @@ For PPCLink, use options
 
 
 -dead on
 -dead on
 -tocdataref off
 -tocdataref off
--m program_init
+-m program_init
+
+Note on the compiler implementation
+===================================
+
+Procedure pointers
+------------------
+The entries in the transition vector is used as procedure pointers.
+That is the symbol xxx[DS].
+
+Global variables
+----------------
+Currently all global variables are indirect, that is the entry in
+the TOC is always a pointer to data. (In the future small data items
+may be stored directly in the TOC, but I have not found out how this
+is supported by PPCLink.)
+
+Thus all references to globals are via a construct like:
+lwz rX, yyy[TC](r2)  ;loads a pointer to a global into rX