Karoly Balogh to Anton Shepelev: >>But this is from the Language guide -- a document >>that descrbes the language in a platform-agnostic >>way... > >Then you have a very different TP manual than me. >Mine is really only for the specific 16-bit case, >and there is no platform agnostic allowance how it >would work on 32/64-bit in that manual. (or even in >different 16-bit models than implemented, e.g. >huge, something they did know, since Turbo C++ has >it)
I used this one: http://turbopascal.org/files/Turbo_Pascal_Version_7.0_Language_Guide_1992.pdf and the built-in TP documentation: http://putka.upm.si/langref/turboPascal/ Neither source makes any exceptions about the 'far' and 'near' reserved words. Thence I concluded that even though on some platforms these concepts may be useless, they are still part of the Turbo Pascal language and shall be used as described regarldess of architecture even if for cross-platform compati- bility. I now see from other replies that the -Mtp mode helps compile TP programs in FPC but not vice versa, which makes me wonder why pointer arithmetics is so limited in -Mtp that one must use Inc and Dec in- stead of the direct '+' and '-' operators. -- Please, do not forward replies to the list to my e-mail. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
