New alpha & binaries

Thu, 20 Feb 1997 00:48:55 +0100 (MET)

Hello, everybody!

I was asked for binaries of the GPC alpha version because some people
(including myself :-) had trouble to compile it, especially on non-UNIX
systems.

I am now uploading binaries of the current alpha GPC for Linux (elf) and
for DOS (DJGPP) to ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/alpha/.

The "current alpha GPC" means of course gpc-970219, not the obsolete and
buggy gpc-970215. ;-)

Changes from gpc-970215 to gpc-970219:

  * Everything which treads `Char' as an ordinal type (e.g. `ord', `min',
    `succ', `case') works again.  (It was broken in gpc-970215.)

  * Initialized `Char' variables work again; `array of char' variables
    now can be initialized with a String value. :)

  * Chars above chr ( 127 ) did not work in some situations, e.g. as `case'
    labels.  Now they do.

  * According to Extended Pascal, you can assign String constants to Chars.
    The empty String yields a space character.

That's it for the moment.

Yours,

    Peter

  Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [970201]
       maintainer GNU Pascal - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [970125]

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