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Free Pascal version 3.2.2 (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 03.10.2021, 08:30

Small bump of this thread to remind jhall that the new release of FPC isn't mirrored to iBiblio yet.

Oh, I haven't even updated my main desktop yet (stuck on 3.2.0). Didn't Laaca say that 3.2.x didn't work on HX due to missing imports? Have newer HX versions from Github not fixed that? Has anyone tested? (I still only have the 3.1.1 "4/22/2018" snapshot installed on my FreeDOS jump drive. It works.)

I also had formerly uploaded Trevor Blight's p5c to iBiblio. (That version outputs C code for GCC and works with DJGPP, e.g. GCC 10.3.) So that newer version (r76) should replace the older one (r67).

Not sure what's going on with Scott Franco's P5 (though I'm still relying on my 2017 GPC/DJGPP 2.05 build of old 1.1 [2010]).

Apparently he has a 1.4 version now, but a very simple and quick check didn't get it working! Dunno. Though FPC 3.2.2 (Go32v2) seems to compile my own simple {$mode iso} [7185] sources without errors. Then again, something about the old P5 1.1 sources compiles okay but won't run ("set" errors). Even GPC can have this problem on certain optimization settings, but for FPC -O2 or -O3 or any change there makes no difference. So the compiled "pcom" can't handle "sets" (unlike GPC) but is much, much faster (2 secs. vs. 9 secs.), oddly.

There's also a P6 out there by Richard Sprague, but I haven't even downloaded nor looked at it at all (yet). I found that through random searching and stumbling again upon Hans Otten.

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