On 12 Nov 2005, at 20:47, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
No, FPC was being created as a protected-mode compiler from the very
beginning.
Is it very different to compile for protect-mode DOS and real-mode
DOS?
Yes. Real-mode Dos is generally 16 bit (although 32 bit real mode is
possible as well, but that does not work as soon as emm386, qemm386
etc is used, or if you have a Dos box under any Windows flavour.
FPC does not contain a 80x86 16 bit code generator (nor a 32 bit Dos
real mode RTL).
Interesting that FPC was based on TP 7, but TP 7 only compiled for
real-mode.
Only the language was based on TP7. The code of the compiler and RTL
was written from scratch. And the main reason to start FPC was
because TP was only a 16 bit real mode compiler.
Jonas
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