[fpc-pascal] Re: xterm -e program-compiled-with-fpc2.4.0 doesn't work

[Sven Barth]

Am 09.03.2012 10:24, schrieb max:
> You seem to know your way around, Bernd, don't you!
> Well, I've tried xterm -hold -e /my/program :
> the xterm-window pops up and stays with nothing in it at all: no error and
> no program output [which should be there]: seems to me that the program
> isn't being run at all! That is if it is compiled with fpc 2.4.0
> Compiled with fpc 1.9.4 there indeed is the usual program putput !
> My prog. uses the crt,unix,keyboard units from rtl, does some disk i/o and
> some window x/y cursor positioning.
> It's supposed to run on a console so it needs the xterm in X11 .
> With your suggested 'Hello World' prog there is no difference between fpc
> 1.9 and 2.4 and this works.

Hmm... so it might be that there was some change in the Crt or Keyboard 
unit that changed the behavior.

> But do not bother any longer, Bernd: you've shown me a way around [ even if
> you've never intended this ] and I'm happy with that.
>
> My general wish for the compiler programmer would be that old versions would
> still be available and installable in the future as new versions sometimes
> show strange behaviours on old prorgams [ this has happened before when the
> internal representations of real numbers were altered leaving my old data
> files unreadable]

Releases older then (AFAIK) 2.2.2 were removed, because of possible 
copyright infringement. This might apply to 1.9.4 as well.

Regards,
Sven