Hello,
One suggestion: Why not implement a syntax mode in Free Pascal which is compatible with the current GPC syntax?
That would merge both projects and avoid such trouble.
If there is no volunteer to do this work, but someone interrested in it's conclusion has some money (at least 200 eur for the doing the gross initial work, more later for the fine tuning), I could try to find an implementor for it in the context of the Lazarus Season of Code: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Season_of_Code
bye,