Announcement: Borland extensions for GPC_(re)

Tue, 7 Nov 1995 17:07:05 +0100 (MEZ)

According to Arcadio Alivio Sincero:
> 
> 	Awesome.  Good job Peter!

Thank you! :-) :-) :-)

> 	'Tho I wish somebody would finish up the Extended Pascal portions 
> of GPC.  I'm trying to steer myself away for using the Borland "standard" 
> (or non-standard ...).  

I think that for many applications you actually *need* the Borland 
"non-standard".  For example, for lo-level programming you need a 
bitwise "and" and a bit-shift operator for integers.  Moreover, I feel
Borland Pascal Units to be much more comfortable than Extended Pascal
Modules due to the repetition of each exported identifier in an
"export" clause.  However, I am willing to contribute to this
"finishing up" if somebody tells me what has to be done.
 
> 	Well, at least now we got a "Borland" Pascal compiler for Linux 
> (there is a Linux version, right?  I've only recently switched from OS/2 
> to Linux ... but I'm pretty sure I saw a Linux version last time I was on 
> kampi.hut.fi ...).

I don't know of an explicit Linux version at kampi.hut.fi, but GPC
compiles straightforwardly under Linux.  Nevertheless, I have
archives with ready-to-run binaries for EMX (DOS and OS/2) as well
as for Linux.  Shall I upload them?

Yours,

    Peter

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