On 2011-04-18 07:11, Marco van de Voort wrote:
On 2011-04-17, Jamie <jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_@charter.net> wrote:
What FreePascal really could use is it's own native debugger (this is
where Delphi still is way aheaed IMHO).
That and the fact that FP has serious issues with some serious large EXE
files.
That is only for people that don't read FAQs
And the fact that the Borland Pascal compatibility for one feature that was introduced when smartlinking was introduced (TP4? TP5?) is still not present in FPC, in casu the fact that when I use a declare of
const
list_ptr: listptr = nil;
list_top: listptr = nil;
list_end: listptr = nil;
and my code only implicitly references list_top via a call to a procedure with an untyped parameter, passing only list_ptr, FPC smart^H^H^H^Htupid_links it away.
And yes, like another poster mentioned, the debugger stinks, and given that the full TP6 source, whether original, or reconstructed has been available for at least two decades, the FPC IDE is an absolute C of C.
Robert
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