ml>  JC> I don't know, but sadly, there will never be an update to VP again so
 ml>  JC> it cannot be fixed.
 ml> 
 ml> very true... is the source code even available any more???

The source for VP compiler was never available publicly.  It was it was written
in 32-bit machine language code and assembler, so its sort of a lost cause
anyway.  It'd need a full rewrite in a different language to work in a modern
64-bit OS, and it'd probably take a decade to get it caught up to Free Pascal
today.

Using it is a dead end in my opinion, when Free Pascal is active, more capable,
and better designed.

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