GNU Bulletin notes

Sat, 25 Jan 1997 20:35:02 +0100 (MET)

Hello!

Some weeks ago, we were asked to write some notes about GNU Pascal
for the GNU Bulletin.  I do not know whether it is too late now,
but here is a draft we could submit.  Please post your 
comments/suggestions here as soon as possible, so we might get
this into the January volume of the Bulletin.

    Peter

      e-mail:  peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de
home address:  D\"usseldorfer Str. 35, 45145 Essen, Germany
         WWW:  http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~peter/

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Forthcoming GNUs

* Pascal

  GNU Pascal is a free 32-bit Pascal compiler. It is implemented as a
  Pascal front-end for GCC, the GNU compiler, thus it runs on all
  platforms supported by GCC and produces the same highly-optimized
  code.

  The current version 2.0 has passed all ISO 7185 level 0 conformance
  tests (but some problems on specific platforms where we suspect some
  general GCC problems), thus we consider it to be a valid level 0
  Standard Pascal compiler.  ISO 7185 level 1 is implemented, but not
  yet stable.  Most of ISO 10206 Extended Pascal and Borland Pascal
  7.0--including objects--is implemented plus some extensions from
  Pascal-SC (user-defineable operators) and native GNU extensions (e.g.
  min, max), but there is still a lot of work to do to fix all bugs,
  implement the missing features and improve the documentation.  Any
  help is most welcome!

  The home ftp site of GNU Pascal is `kampi.hut.fi', directory
  `jtv/gnu-pascal/'.  For more information, look into the inofficial
  `FAQ' in the `contrib' subdirectory.  We also have a WWW home page
  `http://home.pages.de/~GNU-Pascal/' and a mailing list `gpc@hut.fi'.
  To get into the list, write an e-mail to `gpc-request@hut.fi'.


Peter Gerwinski (peter@agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de)