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FPC 2.4.0 released! (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 08.01.2010, 02:27

(random Pascal comments)

1). I found FPC 0.99.5 !! Haven't tried it, but I'm still morbidly curious (as long as it's legal).
2). GPC for MinGW doesn't use Glibc on Win32, at least not that I know of (not exclusively, at least, if at all). It does however use MSVCRT (sadly).
3). GPC/DJGPP is much much bigger output than FPC. Heck, I think FPC even beats it with all default debug info, no smartlinking, etc. Yikes.
5). TP1 and TP302 are definitely not smaller / tighter / faster. At least, it seems a simple "99 bottles of beer" is 7k smaller with TP55 than otherwise (and actually redirectable instead of some weird yellow direct console crud).
6). Actually, the "Standard Pascal" version on http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net isn't standard! I don't think they accept submissions anymore, though. Anyways, I barely hacked up a seemingly "standard" version (no #13#10 parts), and yet it surprisingly compiles fine in all variants I tried (TP55, FPC240, GPC412). That's what they get for trusting one solitary guy (Philipp Winterberg) to write 10 billion Pascal versions. ;-)
7). At one time I tried convincing Jim Hall to include Alice Pascal (in lieu of MS QBasic), but he never agreed.

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