Thunderbird/9.0.1   
   mp.lang.pascal.misc:205   
   From: Robert AH Prins    
      
   Although I'm quite happy using Virtual Pascal, I've decided to give FPC    
   (on W32) another try and, again, I'm not a very happy bunny.   
      
   I've got a program that compiles and runs cleanly in VP, yet it fails    
   miserably in VP, and the unpleasant thing is that running it in the IDE    
   gives me a   
      
   "Run Time Error 4297603" with an   
   "Error address $00000000"   
      
   on a "reset(liftin)" statement.   
      
   Running the program, which compiles with just two warnings about    
   uninitialized variables, from the command-line, will not show up this    
   error, but it now abends with a 216 in the next routine,   
      
   _hash_tr:= maxint;   
   list_ptr:= list_top;   
      
   repeat   
      if list_ptr^.cday[3] = '#' then    <--- 216   
        _hash_tr:= pred(list_ptr^.tr);   
      
      list_ptr:= list_ptr^.list_nxt;   
   until (_hash_tr <> maxint) or   
          (list_ptr  = nil);   
      
   which would indicate that the list that is supposed to be build in the    
   earlier routine that reads the file is not built, but given that I    
   cannot even get to this step in the IDE, that's pretty hard to confirm,    
   although pretty obvious.   
      
   Any hints as how to proceed?   
      
   Robert   
      
   PS: The code generated for some (if not most) routines is just as    
   horribly bad as the code generated by BP and VP - don't take this too    
   personally, IBM's commercial PL/I compiler for Windows generates code    
   that's just as horrible, if not even worse (and this despite the fact    
   that an IBM'er told me two years ago that IBM was well ahead of the FOSS    
   pack when it came to compiler optimizations...)   
      
   PS2: The VP executable, with full debugging info comes to 110K, the FPC    
   version is a few bits more bloated at 299K...   
   --    
   Robert AH Prins   
   robert(a)prino(d)org   
      
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