DOS ain't dead - FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2

FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 (Announce)

posted by Laaca , Czech republic, 17.07.2008, 09:51

> The new RC for FPC 2.2.2 with hopefully most, if not all, remaining bugs
> fixed is at
>
> ftp://ftp.hu.freepascal.org/fpc/beta/2.2.2rc2/i386-go32v2/
>
> Please give it a spin.

I downloaded it yesterday, the bugs I reported with RC1 are gone - it is very good!
Smartlinking works really very well, when enabled I got similar file sizes like with FPC 1.0.10. Debugging also works while the size of FP.EXE remained to be quite small still. Bravo. (btw. which switches did you use for compilation?)
There is only one isssue with debugger in RC2. It doesn't save the output screen when you are in graph mode - IDE properly switches into graphics mode but only black screen is shown. FPC 1.0.10 did it properly. It is a problem of FPC or problem in LIBGDB? What happens if you use a older version of LIBGDB?

Then two very small issues are still present:
* In example of FreeVision (TestApp): if you have no window opened (so the cursor is hidden) and choose from menu "Dosshell", then after returning into application is cursor visible (should be hidden) - is is a bug in FV

* In IDE if you change resolution (to 80x50 for example), the mouse cursor disapears. To make it visible again you have to press Alt-F5 and then any key. It is a bug in VESAMODE.PP (or vesamode.pas? - (I am not sure I am writting this in work))

* Source of INSTALL.PAS could be simplified - it contains some string functions which are already present in units Strings and SysUtils.

* example for CHM reader is missing
(I would like to write own reader for CHM help systems but it is not very clear to me how to use the CHM units)

* in documentation is missing a description how FPC passes arguments into procedures. It is very important for procedures in assembler.
(in oldfpccall via stack, in default by some registers, but how exactly?)

Not bug but a dream:
Some good sound library for DOS.

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DOS-u-akbar!

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Complete thread:

FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - marcov, 14.07.2008, 13:03 (Announce)
- FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - Laaca, 17.07.2008, 09:51
  - FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - Laaca, 17.07.2008, 22:16
  - FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - marcov, 18.07.2008, 11:38
    - FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - Laaca, 18.07.2008, 13:26
    - FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - Rugxulo, 18.07.2008, 13:52
      - FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - marcov, 18.07.2008, 13:59
        FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - Rugxulo, 19.07.2008, 20:23
        FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - FFK, 22.07.2008, 02:56
        FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - Rugxulo, 23.07.2008, 00:28
        FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - FFK, 23.07.2008, 02:14
        DUGL licensing. - marcov, 23.07.2008, 20:30
        DUGL licensing. - FFK, 24.07.2008, 06:32
    - FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - Laaca, 18.07.2008, 23:42
      - FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - Laaca, 19.07.2008, 12:51
        FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - marcov, 21.07.2008, 12:58
        FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 - Laaca, 21.07.2008, 15:47
        FreePascal 2.2.2 rc2 fun thing - marcov, 23.07.2008, 23:17