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by Johnny_Brahms 3239 days ago
I work with a multi-mloc application in fpc. We have migrated the code over many compiler versions with hardly any issues at all.

With every update they post a list of things breaks compatibility, and if you are affected, the refactoring tools are almost always enough.

We had two tries at a full recompile migrating from 2.6.something to 3.0.2, and passed all tests within 13 hours of starting the process. (some of the larger stuff were however already fixed since we keep a close eye on the development).

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What are you doing with a million lines of Pascal? It sounds interesting!