... me

at Michael.VanCanneyt@wisa.be

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... numbers

Otherwise {$if 8>54} would evaluate to True

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... statement

In compiler versions older than 0.9.8, the assignment operator for a macros wasn't := but =

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... pointer.

The frame pointer is not available on all platforms

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... FP0

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... names

This can be avoided by using the alias or cdecl modifiers

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... value

this is actually the qword type, which is not supported in Free Pascal v1.0

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... processors.

The Intel 80x86 version does not align data in the case of constant strings, constant sets, constant floating point values amd global variables. This will be fixed in the version 1.1 release.

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... is

By storing it's size at a negative offset for instance.

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... memory

Thanks for the explanation to Thomas Schatzl (E-mail: tom_at_work@geocities.com)

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... pointer

You can use multiple pointers to point to the same variable as well, that doesn't matter.

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... program

If you omit the library name in the external modifier, then you can still tell the compiler to link to that library using the {$Linklib} directive.

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