> Thanks for the explanation, esp. since Laaca really loves his > oldy-moldy FPC 1.0.10. ;-) (Laaca, is latest FPC still not as > good? You'd know better than me, but I thought most regressions were > fixed by now, not to mention copious improvements.) Well, I guess I'll > just quote your site ( http://laaca-mirror.ic.cz/ ): "Bloček is > written in Freepascal. Normal development is still done in older > version 1.0.10 but final version is compiled with newest available FPC > version (now 2.4.2.)", refreshed last week! >
Yes, I like the FPC 1.0.10. The IDE is a little bit unstable and there are bugs in Ansistrings and sometimes failing type control but all important components work. In 2.x.x versions were some major DOS related bugs fixed but there still is one very severe. Look at my bugreport. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=18113 Except that still does not well work debugging programs running in graphics mode. More preciously: Everything works except saving content of graphics screen: Program runs until breakpoint - then is stopped and screen is switched into FPC IDE. After work in IDE you select "Continue in running program", graphics mode is restored but not the screen content. Screen is black. > But honestly, this is a weird bug, surely LD itself (from GNU) didn't > explicitly do this, did it? (I mean, why would it?) Mustn't it be a > DJGPP libc bug? But 2.9.1 is old old old (latest is 2.21 !!) from May > 1998, apparently, which would've been DJGPP 2.01 or such (instead of > current 2.03p2 or beta 2.04). > > Oh well, if newer LD works, it's fixed. Still good to make FreeDOS > work with either. (Marcov suggests only FPC 2.2.2 [from 2008] or newer > for various reasons: copyright and bugs and lack of features. In fact, > they don't mirror versions older than that anymore. Latest FPC and FBC > both use LD 2.17, DJGPP uses LD 2.19.) > > Hmmm, iBiblio has 2.04, 2.2.0, and 2.2.2 (only). Somebody (me?) should > probably update that soon. (I don't know what 1.0 shipped with, which > is also there obviously, but it must've been even older.) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! > Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its > next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran > developers boost performance applications - including clusters. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
