Delphi feature matrix has two important points:

• Delphi 32-bit native code optimizing compiler (dcc32) for Windows, including high performance x86
  Assembler
• Delphi toolchains for Windows

Regardless indicated options dcc32 doesn't work in Delphi Berlin Starter with the error message "This version of the product does not support command line compiling".

Some countries have integer numbers printed on the transport tickets, for example, in ex-USSR. The ticket is "happy" when the sum of the first half of digits equals to the second one. Then you should eat it and make a wish.

Example:

123456 and 111222 are not happy tickets
123123 and 123222 are the happy tickets

Here is the code explaining some methods to pack bit accessing logic in your program.

program project1;
 
type
  TRec1 = packed record // Doesn't pack at all
    b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6, b7, b8, b9, b10, b11, b12, b13, b14, b15, b16: boolean;
  end;
 
  TRec2 = bitpacked record // Free Pascal specific
    b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6, b7, b8, b9, b10, b11, b12, b13, b14, b15, b16: boolean;
  end;
 
  TRecByte = (b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6, b7, b8, b9, b10, b11, b12, b13, b14, b15, b16);
  TRecBytes = set of TRecByte;
var
  r1: TRec1;
  r2: TRec2;
  s1: TRecBytes;

How to add support of multi-core/multiprocessor support to Windows XP SP3?

Run this in command line:

rundll32 syssetup,SetupInfObjectInstallAction ACPIAPIC_MP_HAL 128 %windir%\inf\hal.inf

This command replace single-core kernel to multi-core kernel without reinstalling Windows. You should be required to confirm driver installation and to reboot twice.

Free Pascal (like Delphi) provide some useful functions to watch heap memory state in your application.

function GetHeapStatus: THeapStatus;