DOS ain't dead

New bug in FreePascal 2.6.0 (Developers)

posted by Laaca , Czech republic, 18.03.2012, 10:34

I had no reason to try FPC 2.6.0 earlier because I am happy with 2.4.2 and with 1.0.10.
However today I look at it and was disappointed.
The first visible problem is in IDE. You can compile any program but the compiled EXE is not run. After some tracking I discovered that problem is in the DosShell function in all FreeVision based applications and it is because of bug in Procedure Exec.
Procedure Exec is in DOS.PP file and these is some bug in procedure EXEC_Ansistring.
I have not tracked it more preciously however not all parameters are properly passed from pascal into DOS environment.
There even sometimes raises a general protection fault when calling Exec with empty command line - "Exec(GetEnv(COMSPEC),'')"

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DOS-u-akbar!

Complete thread:

• New bug in FreePascal 2.6.0 - Laaca, 18.03.2012, 10:34 (Developers)
  • New bug in FreePascal 2.6.0 - marcov, 18.03.2012, 21:07
    • New bug in FreePascal 2.6.0 - Laaca, 18.03.2012, 22:13
      • New bug in FreePascal 2.6.0 - marcov, 19.03.2012, 08:55
        • New bug in FreePascal 2.6.0 - Laaca, 21.03.2012, 13:41
          • New bug in FreePascal 2.6.0 - marcov, 21.03.2012, 13:46
            • New bug in FreePascal 2.6.0 - Rugxulo, 21.03.2012, 20:21
              • New bug in FreePascal 2.6.0 - marcov, 23.03.2012, 14:56
                • New bug in FreePascal 2.6.0 - Laaca, 26.03.2012, 07:40
                  • New bug in FreePascal 2.6.0 - marcov, 26.03.2012, 09:31
                • New bug in FreePascal 2.6.0 - Laaca, 05.04.2012, 18:13
                  • New bug in FreePascal 2.6.0 - marcov, 06.04.2012, 22:48