On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:54:34AM -0700, George Shapovalov wrote:

Under Linux, just grab the latest version released (under alpha directory on an ftp server, last betta is already WAY out of sync), usually it is pretty stable.

Oh.. I've got latest beta, and was quite surprised to find there patches for `egcs', while I have only 2.95.3 and 3.0 installed.

Also do not install gcc itself -- I had issues.

Thanks.

As far as IDE goes you can use Rhide under dos (djpp) and linux.

thanks. I don't use IDE. And I don't write in pascal too -- I just don't like feeling when I can't control what code would be produced, and, unfortunately, I don't feel like it with pascal.

BP compatibility: except newest features introduced in Delphy it is working nice.

What about types ??

I need that BP sourced would be compiled and work withput any changes, and I exact memory managenent would be required. It is quite confusing when `integer' takes 4 bytes instead of 2, especially if you have limited memory and targe array of integers.

also, are BP sets supported? is `data layout' comatible, i.e. would blockread() of some set work as expected ?? [byteorder is fixed].

can anyone explain me how 'absolute' works in gpc ?

Few features require special compilation options, few are unimplemented on purpose.

FPC: there was a discussion on this list and as I remember the word was that it is not implementing so many extended pascal features

Ok, I think I'll note this, and start with gpc, and will think about FPC on request.