So whatever happened to the whole PGDCE thing?

[Chebmaster]

Uh, why are you still using FPC 2.6.4?

Is very stable.

Trunk and 3.0.0 compilers, on the other hand, crash with internal errors trying to build my project (I reported many a bug). It seems that that was fixed in 3.0.2 but I want to be ABSOLUTELY sure when something crashes it's a problem in my mindscrewy code, not in the compiler or RTL.
I had very bad experience of spending several months on difficult debugging and practically had my project die due to my confidence failing -- all because of a faulty tool causing random *unrelated* crashes.
Let's say I would be boasting the first multi-threaded first-person shooter for DOS in human history (made in 1998 ) if not for that faulty piece of excrement. It killed my motivation.
Since then I ONLY use stable tools. So, until the managers of Debian Stable say it's okay by raising its FPC over 2.6.4... Just no.
I carefully prepare my code to move over to 3.0.x and periodically test if it compiles, of course, but not yet.

[phibermon]

Chebmaster : having developed cross platform code using FPC for a number of years, I've encountered many bugs, usually OS specific. I'd recommend that you build on at least two operating systems - It helps to identify the source of problems, to eliminate common code etc.

I've found FPC 3.0.x to be very stable, my code is working on all the OSes I currently support and it touches everything you'd expect from a modern engine - I had a few issues with 2.6.x.

There may be some issues that were introduced perhaps but don't dismiss it entirely just in case you spend ages trying to get round a bug that was later fixed - which is a more likely scenario.