On 4/27/23 01:07, HSN via fpc-other wrote:
Thank you so much for your concerns Jacob, advocating for the “rights”
of pascal developers.
That is so kind of you. How long have you been here? A month? Now that
definitely takes dedication..
Please take your “help” elsewhere.The people in the channels that I
manage don’t want you around can you guess why?
Don’t bother trying to sneak in under a new name to spy on us
either. I’ve made a private channel for all discussions of any
significance .
You have helped rid #fpc of two useless lurkers who never contributed
anything and I commend you for that.
^^^
This sounds like paranoia to me.
Now let’s have a look at your non existent code shall we?
Please tell the nice people here about that Fpc not using “&” Instead of
“and” problem of yours and that precious “code“ that can’t be defiled
by being fixed to work properly with fpc...
The code we are using is built with an old Pascal compiler called
Pascal/MT+, its an old compiler from around 1983.
Again, the code is proprietary, I don't own it, the company I work for
does, so I cannot just simply upload it to some public place.
If "Joanna" would bother to look in the manual here
http://www.cpm.z80.de/manuals/MTplusMan.pdf
and look on page 40, "4.3 Logical Expressions", him/her/it would see
that the compiler uses C-style operators, like "&", for doing bitwise
operations.
There are more incompatibilities compared to what fpc can currently
parse, like the placement of the "external" keyword, the syntax for
units (Pascal/MT+ calls them "modules"), the fact that local variables
are *not* allocated on the stack by default, etc.
We are considering patching fpc to support a "Pascal/MT+" mode, but so
far we've made good enough progress by automatically converting the
sources with perl scripts to a dialect of Pascal that fpc can parse. And
frankly, although "Joanna" doesn't actually represent fpc development in
any way, the encounter with him/her/it has not been in favor of us
contributing back to fpc, I'm sorry to say.
Jacob
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