From: engelbert_buxbaum@hotmail.com   
      
   In article <10dsqve$2r3q1$1@dont-email.me>,   
   robert@prino.org says...   
   >   
   > Not really interested in DOS, big issue is,   
   even in TP-mode, that FPC does not   
   > honour the old TP construction where all variables in a single var/const   
   > declaration are kept in the final executable, i.e. I use   
   >   
   > const   
   >    xxx_ptr : xxxptr  = nil;   
   >    xxx_top : xxxptr  = nil;   
   >    xxx_end : xxxptr  = nil; {or, occasionally @xxx_top}   
   >   
   > and update them after an insert in the linked list with a small assembler   
   > routine that never explicitly uses xxx_end, nor do I ever explicitly use   
   xxx_end   
   > myself and that results in FPC eliminating it. VP sticks to the Borland   
   > implementation!   
      
   Since the source code of TP is available on the   
   internet (https://archive.org/details/tpascal),   
   it should be straightforward to integrate such   
   features into FP   
   (https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/).   
      
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