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   Message 69 of 592   
   Robert AH Prins to All   
   Re: FPC - trying again :(   
   11 Jan 12 13:33:45   
   
   Thunderbird/9.0.1   
   mp.lang.pascal.misc:220   
   From: Robert AH Prins    
      
   On 2012-01-11 09:25, Marco van de Voort wrote:   
   > On 2012-01-11, Robert AH Prins  wrote:   
   >>> 1. Clean out redundant assembler. It might have hidden assumptions about   
   >>>      compiler and rtl internals.   
   >>   
   >> If you compile without defining "asm", all assembler will be out, with   
   >> the exception of the code in write_time, I don't remember why there is   
   >> no corresponding pure-Pascal version of that procedure, even the latest   
   >> TP3 version I can access right now (no DVD-RAM due to a dead PC) already   
   >> used inline "assembler" for that routine.   
   >   
   > The second half of 80386all also has assembler only options. Worse, they   
   > seem to have VP specific&  directives next to them.   
      
   You're right, If you really want, you can just add a {$ifdef asm} ...    
   {$endif} around them (i.e. core_4_cvi_cvr & stripper).   
      
   However, FPC doesn't have any problems with them due to the fact that it    
   ignores VP specific "{&..." directives...   
      
   Robert   
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