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posted by kerravon E-mail, Ligao, Free World North, 03.07.2021, 15:45

> > If simple Pascal utilities are a similar size,
> > by virtue of leveraging msvcrt.dll the same
> > way, that's something I'd like to see.
>
> I agree with mceric here. You risk having to rewrite minimize programs to
> suit the minimal C functionality, reducing the compiler to some basic C
> equivalent syntax and libraries only.

Does ISO Pascal, standardized in 1990, same
time as C90, have more functionality than
it's C counterpart?

> IMHO that is pointless. Pascal programmers will see that as regression and
> not touch it, even more so if their existing programs require
> modification.

Pascal programmers, of which I am now one, do
not speak with one voice. Some of us see the
value in supporting the only public domain
operating system that supports Win32 executables.

> Pascal can directly call C counterparts. Just do the
> glue code in pascal and call the C function. Then you
> don't need stubs or nothing.

I don't know how to do that. I know (very) basic
assembler though.

BFN. Paul.

 

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