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> great backwards compatibility How good was Delphi at hiding MS-DOS quirks? I know C from that platform tended to be nonstandard with near and far pointers to
by msla 8y ago
> great backwards compatibility
How good was Delphi at hiding MS-DOS quirks? I know C from that platform tended to be nonstandard with near and far pointers to accommodate memory segmentation, but was Delphi any better?
- bitwize 8y agoDelphi was a Windows-only product. Delphi 1 and its predecessor, Turbo Pascal, only supported far pointers to data, and could support far or near procedure calls with an annotation (essentially, a compiler pragma).
- acqq 8y ago> only supported far pointers to data Which meant that as long as you didn't have to call C functions you just had to know and write that "it's a pointer" and nothing more.