[fpc-devel] [fpc-announce] FPC 3.2.0 released!

[J. Gareth Moreton]

That's great to know that the compiled binaries are smaller with, 
hopefully, no loss in speed.  Glad to see my little assembly language 
optimisations have come in handy!

Now I need to get a move on and implement pure functions for the future 
release.

Gareth aka. Kit

On 03/07/2020 18:18, Keith Bowes via fpc-devel wrote:
> Je 2020-06-20 je 12:03:58 (+0200) Marco van de Voort skribis:
>> Finally, the Free Pascal 3.2.0 release is available from our servers and
>> from sourceforge.
>>
> I've been playing around a little with it.  So far, so good.  It
> compiles as fast as ever and the generated binaries are much smaller
> than with 3.0.4.  It's little wonder why Pascal is my go-to language
> when writing something (unfortunately, I have to use primarily C and
> Python when sending patches for existing projects).
>
> I was really hoping that ISO 10206 support would be able to make it into
> 3.2, but there were significant roadblocks.  For one, for the Bind
> function to be correctly implemented, I'm pretty sure file I/O would
> have to be rewritten to allow Bind to know whether a file could be
> successfully opened or not.  Another thing was the Card function, which
> I thought would be easy to do, as surely the code keeps track of how
> many elements there are in a set, but if it does, I couldn't find it.
> It just occurred to me right now that a possible hack could be to create
> such a function in the extpas unit using a for..in loop, but that would
> perform very badly compared to compiler code.
>
> I'll probably get back into it eventually, but I might have to redo what
> I've already done, because conflicts in the Makefiles are pretty much a
> certainty.  Personally, I'm nut sure why the Makefiles are included in
> SVN; they should be generated `fpcmake -r` before compilation (or being
> packed into a source tarball) to avoid this kind of thing.
>
> Anyway, it'll be nice if we can get some more ISO 10206 features.  Some
> have been popping up here and there over the years (string slices, the
> ** operator, WriteStr/ReadStr, etc), but a lot of useful features are
> missing and seemingly have no equivalent in Borland's proprietary
> dialect.
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