Free Pascal (aka FPK Pascal) is a 32 and 64 bit professional Pascal compiler. It is available for different processors: Intel x86, Amd64/x86 64, PowerPC, Sparc. The discontinued 1.0 version also supports the Motorola 680x0. The following operating systems are supported: Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X/Darwin, Mac OS classic, DOS, Win32, OS/2, Netware (libc and classic) and MorphOS.
Highlights:
- Architectures: PowerPC/64 and ARM support
- Platforms: Windows x64, Windows CE, Mac OS X/Intel, Game Boy Advance, and Game Boy DS support
- Linker: fast and lean internal linker for Windows platforms
- Debugging: Dwarf support and the ability to automatically fill variables with several values to more easily detect uninitialised uses
- Language: support for interface delegation, bit packed records and arrays and support for COM/OLE variants and dispinterfaces
- Infrastructure: better variants support, multiple resource files support, widestrings are COM/OLE compatible on Windows, improved database support

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