Re: diffrence between free pascal and tmt pascal

From	Robert AH Prins <spamtrap@prino.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.pascal.borland
Subject	Re: diffrence between free pascal and tmt pascal
Date	2014-05-20 12:39 +0000
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On 2014-02-07 21:12, Patrick D. Rockwell wrote:
> Does anyone know the difference between free Pascal and tmt Pascal ?
>
> I've heard that tmt Pascal only writes protected mode programs, and allows
> overlays. Free Pascal doesn't have overlays,  but can it write real mode
> programs?
>
> Also, did Borland Pascal have the object code for its overlay unit? If so,
> couldn't I just compile it into a tpu unit under free Pascal so that I can
> have overlays in free Pascal?

The reconstituted source of the overlay unit is available, in

http://sunsite2.icm.edu.pl/pub/garbo/pc/turbopa7/over-120.zip

Creating overlays in PFC is basically impossible, the unit may be there, the 
compiler cannot generate the required code!

Robert
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Robert AH Prins
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diffrence between free pascal and tmt pascal "Patrick D. Rockwell" <prockwell@thegrid.net> - 2014-02-07 13:12 -0800
  Re: diffrence between free pascal and tmt pascal Marco van de Voort <marcov@toad.stack.nl> - 2014-02-08 10:52 +0000
  Re: diffrence between free pascal and tmt pascal Robert AH Prins <spamtrap@prino.org> - 2014-05-20 12:39 +0000

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