Re: Pascal Compilers

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>>>Well for programs compiled with FreePascal (FPC) you need a 386 and
>>>dpmi support. The same is true with GNU Pascal (GPC), I think.
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>>Well, are there programs compiled in FPC?
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>In FreeDOS? Not yet.
>But I think it's a pitty to work on a free OS with nonfree compilers.
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Reference compiler is BorlandC3, but some people tries to make software 
compatible with BC2, BC++1 or WatcomC, all of them being "gratis" but 
non-free.
Same happens to TP5.5, but the lack of asm/end is a big drawback...
However, I'd wish to have such a free compiler too.

>>At this moment, I am rewriting the "core", that will be mainly in 
>>assembler instead of Pascal, in order to reduce the memory footprint to 
>>a minimum.
>>I could try and port to C, but I just don't want to rewrite the "X" 
>>stuff (Xstrings and Xfunctions) in C, it's not worth I think. Perhaps it 
>>could help if I knew how to get a .O file from a TP Unit. (This is for 
>>granted in FreePascal).
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>There's also a Pascal to C converter (p2c).
>Perhaps that can help you.
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No, I dislike such tool a lot. I haven't used it, but I don't like the 
idea. A different idea is the "htop" or "htopas" I've heard about in 
FPC: no convertion is made, it only helps you import C (no C++) .O files 
from DJGPP.

>>I seem to understand that the improvements (Units, for example) Borland 
>>introduced in TP over standard Pascal (and that left the "Why Pascal 
>>isn't..." paper by Kernighan
>>obsolete) appeared themselves in some Pascal language standarization 
>>papers (I don't have references here about this).
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>1. "improvements [...] over standard Pascal": 
>   You seem to think, that BP is just an extention to standard Pascal.
>   But that is not true!
>   Borland Pascal had never been fully compatible with standard 
>   "Pascal" (ISO-7185).
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Well, I read about it long time ago in the GPC site, sorry.

>>There are also TMTPascal and Pascal32, that I haven't tried, 
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>Do you have any links?
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For TMTPascal, using Goole it gives:  ;-)
www.tmt.com
For Pascal32, I last saw it in WDOSX page,
http://surf.to/p32
But it seems it's not working. There's something in the page written in 
a language that I can't even identify (maybe slavic family language?), 
perhaps the project is discontinued.

There are as well VirtualPascal and PascalPro, but I have never used nor 
seem them. Please use google for these two, I have no links.

Aitor