I want to ask about that hanging of the IDE. Was that the problem of Win32 release or GO32v2 release?
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Tomas Hajny <xhaj...@hajny.biz> wrote: > On Fri, July 12, 2013 20:33, Sven Barth wrote: > > On 11.07.2013 22:14, Matúš Kudláč wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> > >> I want to use Free Pascal 1.0.6 in windows XP Professional 32bit. I > >> know to ask some questions about that. Are there some stability problems > >> with that version(compiler, IDE, debugger, ...)? If there are can I make > >> some changes to make it stable(for example to edit the properties of the > >> shortcut). > > > > Others asked you this already, but just to be on the safe side: Do you > > really mean Free Pascal 1.0.6 as released ten years ago or do you mean > > Lazarus 1.0.6 (which uses Free Pascal 2.6.2) as released a few weeks ago? > > > > If it is really the first case then I don't really see anything that > > would not work with 2.6.2 that did work in 1.0.6... (except it's > > something that relies on implementation details) > > Well, I could imagine some potentially relevant cases: > > 1) Necessity to work with a closed source unit compiled with that version > (or unit to which the original sources are lost, which is almost the same > ;-) ). > > 2) Code using lots of assembly and expecting the original calling > convention (this falls into your category of "implementation details", but > it's an understandable one if it involves large amount of code which would > need to be not only modified but possibly also debugged thoroughly because > there are more differences than just the way of passing variables - in > particular ebx needs to be saved). Although in that case 1.0.10 should be > a better option than 1.0.6 - unless the original poster has 1.0.6 only and > not 1.0.10 (in the situation when we do not offer this version for > download any longer, but I could imagine that finding both would be still > possible). > > Obviously, these are just random shots and pure speculation - the poster > clearly stated that he didn't want to disclose the reasons. > > Tomas > > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal >
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