[fpc-pascal] Prospects for running Lightspeed/THINK Pascal and Codewarrior Pascal with FPC

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Ingemar Ragnemalm wrote:
> On 21/08/14 07:41, Jerry wrote:
>>> I have a lot of old Pascal that I am getting interested in reviving. 
>>> It was originally written in Lightspeed/THINK Pascal (did I mention 
>>> it is old?) and around 2000-2002 I converted it to Codewarrior 
>>> Pascal. These are both Macintosh dialects.
>>>
>>> What are the prospects of running each of these dialects under FPC? 
>>> Are there compatibility flags to set? Would there be much rewriting?

> I am very comfortable in porting old Mac code to FPC. FPC implements a 
> very nice and modern Pascal that handles most (but not all) old code. 
> The only problem I have had is with multiply nested code that does 
> "exit" on the enclosing function, which FPC can't do.

I know it's not good practice, but could this- at least during initial 
porting- be replaced by an exception?

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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