[fpc-devel] PPU version checking

[John Lee]

I'm guessing that you'd need to be pretty au fait with fpc internals & the
code to do this eg because there's no spec, and no tools to help? J

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> In other words: _If_ someone is motivated enough for such a task, it would
> be possible to create a convertor from one PPU version to another (and I
> don't mean a "convertor" only changing the version number but something
> that really loads the original format of the particular original version
> and stores the data in the new format with new version). I don't think any
> of the core developers would be interested in such a task (at least not
> just for fun because it would not be much fun most likely), but I don't
> want to talk for others.
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> Moreover, note that in addition to PPU version number you also have
> dependencies related changes in RTL and packages. In other words, you
> would need to convert the originally used compiled RTL+packages units this
> way together with your own (compiled) units in order to be able to use
> those units with the new compiler.
>
> Tomas
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