[fpc-pascal] Free pascal 1.0.6

[Sven Barth]

On 13.07.2013 01:29, Tomas Hajny wrote:
> On Fri, July 12, 2013 20:33, Sven Barth wrote:
>> On 11.07.2013 22:14, Matúš Kudláč wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>       I want to use Free Pascal 1.0.6 in windows XP Professional 32bit. I
>>> know to ask some questions about that. Are there some stability problems
>>> with that version(compiler, IDE, debugger, ...)? If there are can I make
>>> some changes to make it stable(for example to edit the properties of the
>>> shortcut).
>>
>> Others asked you this already, but just to be on the safe side: Do you
>> really mean Free Pascal 1.0.6 as released ten years ago or do you mean
>> Lazarus 1.0.6 (which uses Free Pascal 2.6.2) as released a few weeks ago?
>>
>> If it is really the first case then I don't really see anything that
>> would not work with 2.6.2 that did work in 1.0.6... (except it's
>> something that relies on implementation details)
>
> Well, I could imagine some potentially relevant cases:
>
> 1) Necessity to work with a closed source unit compiled with that version
> (or unit to which the original sources are lost, which is almost the same
> ;-) ).
>
> 2) Code using lots of assembly and expecting the original calling
> convention (this falls into your category of "implementation details", but
> it's an understandable one if it involves large amount of code which would
> need to be not only modified but possibly also debugged thoroughly because
> there are more differences than just the way of passing variables - in
> particular ebx needs to be saved). Although in that case 1.0.10 should be
> a better option than 1.0.6 - unless the original poster has 1.0.6 only and
> not 1.0.10 (in the situation when we do not offer this version for
> download any longer, but I could imagine that finding both would be still
> possible).

Isn't the old calling convention available as "oldfpccall" anyway?

Regards,
Sven