Some of you may know Philippe Guillot as the creator and head of the Palm Pascal Compiler project. Well he has already made one of the first open source native Pascal compilers for the PalmOS handhelds. Now, he's going back to the drawing board and writing a newer and better compiler with the ISO Standard Pascal syntax for the PalmOS platform. In an announcement in late September he stated the following goals of this new compiler to be written with the existing PP Compiler.

:arrow: ISO Standard Pascal compiler, rewritten in PP Pascal and souce code available
:arrow: Full ARM native code generation that leads to more than 10 x faster code
:arrow: 64 bits reals
:arrow: Integrated ARM assembler
:arrow: Documentation with code samples


Just this last Wednesday, Mr. Guillot just announced the release of the new 'Native ARM Palm Pascal Compiler' that is currently availible on their website which is now at version 3.04.


Many may not know this but this team has also translated the Official Palm OS SDK and released it on the PPCompiler.org site. More information about that is availible at this thread.


For more information about the Palm Pascal compiler project or just PalmOS development in general, visit PPCompiler.org!