Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/15
Just found back an old note with Pascal manuals for the IBM 370 machines: the Reference Manual and Programmers Guide.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/21
I had seen this before, but was glad about the reminder to put it in my blog: [WayBack] OMG, there is Turbo Pascal 7 compatible compiler for 8051 microcontrollers! http://turbo51.com – Primož Gabrijelčič – Google+:
[WayBack] turbo51.com: Full-featured free Pascal compiler for 8051 microcontrollers, Borland Turbo Pascal 7 syntax, multi-pass optimizer, generates bin, hex, OMF-51 and asm source.
ProgramTurbo51;UsesFastCompiler,AdvancedOptimizations,SmartLinker,AseemblerFileGenerator;// Turbo51 is released as freeware. You can download it and use it for FREE.// However, if you like Turbo51 you can donate some small amount via PayPal.// Donations are a great way to show your appreciation for my software.beginDownloadFrom('http://turbo51.com/download-free-pascal-compiler-8051');InstallAndConfigure;RepeatCreateProject;CompileProject;TestProject;WhileThereIsAProblemdobeginCheckCode;CheckDocumentation;TryAgain;CaseProblemSolvedofTrue:Break;elseAskForHelp;end;end;IfInstalledVersion<'0.1.3.17'thenUpdate;IfSatisfiedthenDonate($20);untilNoMoreProjects;end.a
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/07/31
Patching code at debug-time: [WayBack] It’s a blong, blong, blong road…: ‘What if?’ scenario analysis in the CPU window.
Remember:
I’ve done this for 20+ years and usually use the $90 byte (NOP instruction) though your experience may be different.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/01
Eric Grange:
Actually it is not that assignments of function return values can happen “when the function raises an exception” but rather than they can happen before the function returns.
Note that this is not limited to large return types, it can also happen on reference counted types (string, dynamic array, variant and interface), though this is contextual as well…
Got bit by the interface thing a few months ago, an interface release was triggering an exception when the result was assigned, the call stack looked way out of synch with the code, so various compilation and and map file mismatch issues got investigated, before I dropped in asm view in the debugger, which made it all obvious.
I’ve quoted it in full as I’ve been bitten by this a few times as well, but never got to making a proper blog post on it.
Thanks Eric for phrasing this and David for bringing it up.
It actually has been the case since somewhere toward the end of the Turbo Pascal era.
Source: [WayBack] This program: {$APPTYPE CONSOLE} uses System.SysUtils; type TRec1 = r…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/05
Back in my school days, this was the best Pascal book you could get: “Advanced Pascal Programming Techniques” – Google Search.
This is Apple Pasca, USD Pascal, first Turbo Pascal era.
Sadly, getting English books in The Netherlands was hard. So I had to do with books from Academic Press which not as good.
Via:
–jeroen
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