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Free Pascal version 3.2.2 (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 05.07.2022, 00:22

> There's also a P6 out there by
> Richard Sprague, but I haven't even downloaded nor looked at it at all
> (yet).

Although my code is relatively simple, I did test it on various compilers. So, when trying P6, my conclusion is that it's buggy because various programs that work everywhere else don't work there. (No, I didn't report a bug: I don't know if it's actively maintained.)

Because P5 [sic] is so hard to bootstrap, one guy (five months ago) ported it to Delphi. This does NOT (easily, if at all) compile with Free Pascal, sadly. (I shouldn't be surprised, Delphi is a moving target and very complex.) But his binaries when run atop Windows do show similar behavior to my local build of P5 1.4.

(One particular program of mine works fine in P5 1.1 and everywhere else without errors, but P5 1.4 reports "undefined access error" or whatever unless I use {$q-}. The above Delphi version mimics that behavior. It's possible that it's a bug on my end, but it's not fully clear where or why. Neither FPC nor GPC complain. Anyways, I've "mostly" rewritten that program as it was very naive and sloppy.)

Complete thread:

• Free Pascal version 3.2.2 - rr, 22.05.2021, 21:48 (Announce)
  • Free Pascal version 3.2.2 - Laaca, 22.05.2021, 23:00
    • Free Pascal version 3.2.2 - rr, 22.05.2021, 23:10
  • Free Pascal version 3.2.2 - marcov, 24.05.2021, 00:00
  • Free Pascal version 3.2.2 - marcov, 31.05.2021, 12:13
    • Free Pascal version 3.2.2 - rr, 31.05.2021, 21:12
      • Free Pascal version 3.2.2 - Laaca, 08.06.2021, 17:36
        • Free Pascal version 3.2.2 - Rugxulo, 03.10.2021, 08:30
          • Free Pascal version 3.2.2 - jhall, 03.10.2021, 21:51
            • Free Pascal version 3.2.2 - Rugxulo, 04.10.2021, 07:37
              • Free Pascal version 3.2.2 - Rugxulo, 12.11.2021, 20:54
              • FPC 3.2.2 (ppcross8086.exe atop HXRT 2.19-pre8) in FreeDOS - Rugxulo, 14.11.2021, 18:50
          • Free Pascal version 3.2.2 - Rugxulo, 04.10.2021, 07:39
          • Free Pascal version 3.2.2 - Rugxulo, 05.07.2022, 00:22