Peter N Lewis wrote:
Well, the Borland dialects surely are for the Intel processor. Mac Pascal (which started this thread) obviously not. So, which others?
Mac is moving to Intel, so Mac Pascal will be fore Intel next year.
This part was about dialect features we're supporting. So far, there have been no new features for Mac Pascal on Intel AFAIK ;-), and if there will be, we'll have to decide whether/how to support them. (But if the makers of Mac Pascal compilers will find a need for new features on Intel, maybe they'd look at other compilers first, including perhaps GPC, to avoid spawning further new dialects ...)
Indeed. It is always best to make one major change at a time, so for example, first move from the proprietary compiler to GPC, and then after that is working, then move from the proprietary language to Extended Pascal, presuming of course there is some benefit in doing that.
Indeed. Or even, do major feature changes as single steps, say units to modules, short strings to EP strings, dirty variable sized arrays (this is for BP, don't know about Mac Pascal) to schemata, etc. Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank@g-n-u.de, http://fjf.gnu.de/, 7977168E GPC To-Do list, latest features, fixed bugs: http://www.gnu-pascal.de/todo.html GPC download signing key: ACB3 79B2 7EB2 B7A7 EFDE D101 CD02 4C9D 0FE0 E5E8