Announcement: Borland extensions for GPC_(re)

Tue, 7 Nov 1995 12:54:35 -0500 (EST)

> 
> 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?

Yes, please! Especially the OS/2 version I am eagerly awaiting!  Stefan

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