From: robert@prino.org   
      
   On 2011-04-18 07:11, Marco van de Voort wrote:   
   > On 2011-04-17, Jamie    
   wrote:   
   >>> What FreePascal really could use is it's own native debugger (this is   
   >>> where Delphi still is way aheaed IMHO).   
   >>>   
   >> That and the fact that FP has serious issues with some serious large EXE   
   >> files.   
   >   
   > That is only for people that don't read FAQs   
      
   And the fact that the Borland Pascal compatibility for one feature that was   
   introduced when smartlinking was introduced (TP4? TP5?) is still not present in   
   FPC, in casu the fact that when I use a declare of   
      
   const   
      list_ptr: listptr = nil;   
      list_top: listptr = nil;   
      list_end: listptr = nil;   
      
   and my code only implicitly references list_top via a call to a procedure with   
   an untyped parameter, passing only list_ptr, FPC smart^H^H^H^Htupid_links it   
   away.   
      
   And yes, like another poster mentioned, the debugger stinks, and given that the   
   full TP6 source, whether original, or reconstructed has been available for at   
   least two decades, the FPC IDE is an absolute C of C.   
      
   Robert   
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