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- From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Patrick Taylor)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: Runtime Error 1 in TP6 ?
- Message-ID: <exuptr.370.724113160@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 22:32:40 GMT
- References: <4715@seti.inria.fr> <dmurdoch.355.724088195@mast.queensu.ca>
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- In article <dmurdoch.355.724088195@mast.queensu.ca> dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
- >From: dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
- >Subject: Re: Runtime Error 1 in TP6 ?
- >Date: 11 Dec 92 15:36:35 GMT
-
- >In article <4715@seti.inria.fr> lasgout@solaris.inria.fr (Jean-Marc Lasgouttes) writes:
- >>
- >>So perhaps it is just yet another uninitialised pointer problem... But there
- >>could be another explanation : As there things to change to TPRO5.07 to make it
- >>work with the memory allocation scheme of TP6 beside of commenting out ExecDOS(sp?
- >> I don't know the english name...) to let everything compile ? I know I could
- >>call support, but here in France the company that sells the product is not as
- >>friendly as Turbo Power seems to be...
-
- >There are a large number of small changes necessary to make the 5.x versions
- >of the TurboPower units reliable in TP 6. I think the only reasonable thing
- >to do is to upgrade.
-
- >Off the top of my head:
-
- >There are a few places where they dereference pointers after disposing of
- >them; this is almost always a safe error in TP 4/5, almost always a
- >disaster in TP 6.
-
- >There may be some places where they rely on a standard stack frame being set
- >up; TP 6 does this if it needs it.
-
- >The heap manager is very different; anything that works at that level needs
- >to be rewritten.
-
- >Duncan Murdoch
- >dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca
-
- I have successfully converted. It wasn't that hard really, but they
- sent me a few new .asm files.
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