FPK Pascal and GNU Pascal - a comparision
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by Florian Klaempfl <fnklaem@cip.ft.uni-erlangen.de>
and Peter Gerwinski <peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de>
22 September 1996
FPK Pascal GNU Pascal
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aim: free Borland compatible free portable
32-bit Pascal compiler 32-bit Pascal compiler
version: 0.6.4 2.0 (corresponding to GCC 2.7.2.1)
operating DOS (DJGPP), OS/2, Linux DOS (DJGPP), DOS (EMX),
systems: Windows 95/NT (CygWin32),
OS/2 (EMX), FreeBSD, Linux,
other UNIX compatible systems
written in: Pascal, TP Syntax C
(compiles itself)
source: 900 kB 6.4 MB plus source of GCC (27 MB)
(including documentation etc.)
language Borland Pascal 7.0, ISO 7185 Standard Pascal (Level 0),
standard: (parts of) Delphi II (most of) ISO 10206 Extended Pascal,
(most of) Borland Pascal 7.0
extensions: function overloading user-definable operators
home server: http://home.pages.de/~FPK-Pascal/ http://home.pages.de/~GNU-Pascal/
ftp://kampi.hut.fi/jtv/gnu-pascal/
license: Free Software (GPL) Free Software (GPL)
author: Florian Klaempfl, Germany Jukka Virtanen, Finland
fnklaem@cip.ft.uni-erlangen.de jtv@hut.fi