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FPC 2.4.0 released! (Announce)

posted by marcov, 10.01.2010, 12:54

> (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).
Hmm, if I look at the dates on those sources it might not be. I thought it was may 1997, but there are '98 dates in the sources archive.

> 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).
It uses a libc with a straighter implementation, but it is still effectively a Unix/POSIX port.

> 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.
I'd forget GPC for everything but last resort for unsupported architectures (and then, better brace yourself and ask yourself if it is worth it), or maybe some select cases of numeric analysis.

> parts), and yet it surprisingly compiles fine in all variants I tried
> (TP55, FPC240, GPC412).

Note that the stuff that the borland dialects don't implement from standard pascal can be counted on one hand. The difference in standard I/O is the one you usually touch first. (Standard pascal provides an one record lookahead by default in its I/O handling, Borland does not)

> 7). At one time I tried convincing Jim Hall to include
> Alice Pascal (in lieu of MS
> QBasic), but he never agreed.
Doesn't store sources in plain text. Makes me weary. What is interesting at all there? Maybe for educational use, but for normal use it seems to limited

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