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FPC 2.4.2RC1 (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 18.10.2010, 23:36

> Well, afaik there were no reports of wide testing with the new tools, so I
> guess the mainteners stuck to known good versions.
Wide testing??? Um, stable 2.4.0 didn't work with 2.19, so you can't test with that. So unless a ton of people tested the snapshots (obviously not), you won't bother?? Hooray! :-(

EDIT: Well I thought you guys said you fixed it. Go figure, no it doesn't work (tested with AS and LD from DJGPP's 2.19). Gives a strange warning, still "compiles", but the .EXE is only 3 kb (obviously broken, normal is around 47 kb), and (obviously) doesn't run, causes an exception (XP Home SP3).

At the very least, as I've said before, you can't unpack these .EXEs, which means they will always run slower (2x ?) on XP's NTVDM than otherwise. There are other issues, but I can't remember offhand.

Note that I can (and will) rebuild BinUtils 2.17 (yet again) for you guys if you want, which should at least avoid any silly UPX problems. (BTW, since I didn't download the entire thing, you may wish to know that UPX 3.07 is latest. Haven't personally rebuilt that as UPX-UCL, only older 3.05, but since you never cared for using that instead anyways, I guess it's moot.)

> > BTW, CWSDPMI r7 has been out since the beginning of the year,
> [...]
>
> Do you know who has extensively tested FPC with it ? (for more than a
> befunge interpreter?)
Both CWS and I tested r7 with various things (non-FPC related) with DJGPP, and it works fine. (Rebuilt old DC:SS 0.5.x with it in pure FreeDOS on a 1 GB machine using 120 MB of RAM at compile time due to C++ optimizations.) It's pushed out by default by DJ himself on the Zip Picker in lieu of "old standard" r5. I'm not saying it potentially has no bugs, but since I've been using it exclusively on all my DOS setups for months, I haven't noticed anything obvious. I think CWS has declared it "stable". I mean, if you're really worried, include both r5 2008 and r7, they're small enough! (What's another 20 kb??)

r7 allows 4 GB (no, I've not tested that much yet, though I do have a 4 GB machine now, and PAQ8 will gladly oblige) without needing swapping for low page tables and is much faster due to 4 MB pages. But hey, why would you trust a DOS user about a DOS tool? ;-)

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