Free Pascal 2.0 Released

[Randall Hyde]

Free Pascal 2.0 (GPL'd, open source, etc., etc.) has been released. You can find a copy at www.freepascal.org. Includes the ability to emit Gas or Nasm assembly code. Also supports assembly language (in-line).
Cheers,
Randy Hyde

[hutch--]

Just to diluet my ignorance, is there a Windows 32 bit version of GAS ?

[Vortex]

There is also another compiler named Virtual Pascal compatible with Borland Pascal.

[Randall Hyde]

Just to diluet my ignorance, is there a Windows 32 bit version of GAS ?

Yep. And I believe that it comes with the Free Pascal package, as a matter of fact. I've generally used the Cygwin version, myself (e.g., for test Gas output from HLA). Generally, though, you have to use LD to process GAS output (i.e., the versions I've seen do not produce MS-COFF compatible OBJ files).
Cheers,
Randy Hyde

[MichaelW]

According to this, Virtual Pascal is now dead. I thought this part was interesting:

The reasons for the inactivity are many, but among the main ones are
- VP's compiler codebase has become obsolete. It's written in assembly code, and adding new functionality to the compiler realistically requires that it's written in a higher level language,

[Randall Hyde]

According to this, Virtual Pascal is now dead. I thought this part was interesting:

The reasons for the inactivity are many, but among the main ones are
- VP's compiler codebase has become obsolete. It's written in assembly code, and adding new functionality to the compiler realistically requires that it's written in a higher level language,

Of course, this was immediately followed by the statement:

- I don't have the time or even knowledge to rewrite large portions of VP (Vitaly wrote the compiler and is generally much cleverer than me),

Which kind of explains the problem. :-)

There was an interesting comment about the code being based on Borland's code (hence, no open souce). I wonder what the story behind VP is?
cheers,

Randy Hyde