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FreeDOS and Protected Mode (Users)

posted by paulrichards, 14.09.2011, 11:42

> You didn't reply what went wrong with FPC (e.g. was it runtime or while
> compiling?). As said I'm not aware of problems, but I do realize that if
> you have a dirty codebase is harder to port to 32-bit.

Marcov: it compiled OK but the run time result was incorrect. I posted the code snippet on the FreePascal FreeVision board about 2 months ago but had no reply.

Given that I was told that Free Vision is not 100% compatible with Turbo Vision and that there is no documentation for Free Vision I did not persist.

> If Japeth doesn't find something ( I assume he will), then I would try to
> get it working (or parts working) with freepascal, and to compile as much
> as possible with -gtt, range checking etc; to validate as much as
> possible.
>
> Just to see if you can dig up pointers to what could be wrong.

See my other recent posts. I have changed a heap usage setting in a 3rd party B-Tree system I'm using and this seems to have solved the problem, both for the real and protected mode compilations of my app.

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Paul
Melbourne, Australia

Complete thread:

• FreeDOS and Protected Mode - paulrichards, 13.09.2011, 02:18 (Users)
  • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - Rugxulo, 13.09.2011, 02:37
    • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - paulrichards, 13.09.2011, 02:53
      • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - Rugxulo, 13.09.2011, 05:53
        • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - paulrichards, 13.09.2011, 06:48
  • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - Japheth, 13.09.2011, 07:12
    • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - paulrichards, 13.09.2011, 08:24
      • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - Japheth, 13.09.2011, 09:05
        • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - paulrichards, 14.09.2011, 06:00
          • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - Japheth, 14.09.2011, 11:03
            • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - paulrichards, 14.09.2011, 11:17
          • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - paulrichards, 14.09.2011, 11:12
    • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - marcov, 13.09.2011, 13:35
      • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - paulrichards, 14.09.2011, 04:22
        • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - marcov, 14.09.2011, 11:13
          • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - paulrichards, 14.09.2011, 11:42
            • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - marcov, 16.09.2011, 12:52
              • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - paulrichards, 16.09.2011, 14:01
                • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - marcov, 16.09.2011, 17:41
  • BP and Protected Mode - DOS386, 13.09.2011, 07:49
    • BP and Protected Mode - paulrichards, 13.09.2011, 08:27
      • BP and Protected Mode - marcov, 13.09.2011, 09:29
  • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - Laaca, 13.09.2011, 20:19
    • FreeDOS and Protected Mode - paulrichards, 14.09.2011, 04:09