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FPC 2.4.0 released! old BUG's still in, DOS and non-DOS sup (Announce)

posted by DOS386, 08.01.2010, 12:17

Marcov wrote:

> We have placed a new major release of the Free Pascal Compiler,
> version 2.4.0 on our ftp-servers.

COOL (see below)

Rugxulo wrote:

> > RTL:
> > * Linearly scaling multi-threaded memory manager
> (DOS386): "Even in DOS???"
> (heh, you know he would say that)

if he wasn't already DEAD (see far above)

Laaca wrote:

> And finaly the behaviour of IDE. In plain DOS the mouse cursor
> draws some chars when moving.

I can't reproduce it ... in my minimal test, this is NOT a neglection of BUG

> But the situation is even worse.
> Just because in win XP it works fine and under DOSbox too.
> It is bad because it is unlikely that some of the core developers
> will test it under plain DOS. And because under win XP it
> is OK nobody will care about it....

Everybody has to think about his own "good news" posts about running "DOS" stuff in non-DOS systems like Windaube & Co , flooding this forum and some other forums and places

> And maybe I should test also some other DOS mouse
> drivers than CTmouse...

Good idea but I did use CTmouse in my test and am not aware of any CTmouse bugs not present in competitors ...



NTLFN ^^^ missing



again, and ^^^ docs don't work ???



Done! But why not brew ^^^ a BAT'tery file with SET PATH=C:\PP\BIN\GO32V2\;%PATH% ?



COOL ^^^



"voxel" ^^^ compiles well ...



and even runs ^^^ well, except I couldn't find out how to land on this strange planet, or is it possible that this tiny piece of code doesn't support landing at all ??? Other strange thing is the "MODEX" ... in the source I see just a MEMCOPY of 64'000 Bytes ( AKA " 64KB " ) to $000A'0000, so the standard VGA 320*200*8bpp mode, no MODEX at all



the "FPCTRIS" thing doesn't work

Unfixed old IDE bugs :

* Calculator reboot (apparently TripleFault) on overflow
* 25-vs-50-lines-BUG
* CTL-C-BUG

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This is a LOGITECH mouse driver, but some software expect here
the following string:*** This is Copyright 1983 Microsoft ***

Complete thread:

• FPC 2.4.0 released! - marcov, 01.01.2010, 16:08
  • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Rugxulo, 01.01.2010, 18:28
  • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Laaca, 02.01.2010, 19:00
    • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Laaca, 11.01.2010, 08:56
  • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Rugxulo, 02.01.2010, 23:46
    • FPC 2.4.0 released! - marcov, 03.01.2010, 13:16
      • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Rugxulo, 03.01.2010, 15:30
        • FPC 2.4.0 released! - marcov, 05.01.2010, 10:42
          • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Rugxulo, 06.01.2010, 18:40
            • FPC 2.4.0 released! - marcov, 06.01.2010, 22:20
              • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Rugxulo, 06.01.2010, 23:25
                • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Laaca, 07.01.2010, 11:12
                  • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Rugxulo, 08.01.2010, 02:27
                    • FPC 2.4.0 released! - marcov, 10.01.2010, 12:54
                      • FPC 2.4.0 released! - Rugxulo, 10.01.2010, 20:13
  • FPC 2.4.0 released! old BUG's still in, DOS and non-DOS sup - DOS386, 08.01.2010, 12:17
    • FPC 2.4.0 released! - ecm, 08.01.2010, 14:26