Ingemar Ragnemalm wrote:
On 21/08/14 07:41, Jerry wrote:
I have a lot of old Pascal that I am getting interested in reviving.
It was originally written in Lightspeed/THINK Pascal (did I mention
it is old?) and around 2000-2002 I converted it to Codewarrior
Pascal. These are both Macintosh dialects.
What are the prospects of running each of these dialects under FPC?
Are there compatibility flags to set? Would there be much rewriting?
I am very comfortable in porting old Mac code to FPC. FPC implements a
very nice and modern Pascal that handles most (but not all) old code.
The only problem I have had is with multiply nested code that does
"exit" on the enclosing function, which FPC can't do.
I know it's not good practice, but could this- at least during initial
porting- be replaced by an exception?
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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