Some bug reports - and success report_(re)

Fri, 28 Feb 1997 00:22:18 +0100 (MET)

According to Frank Heckenbach:
> Just wondering - what's the difference between "Const" and "Protected"
> parameters? Are they only handled differently internally in the compiler,
> or is there any semantic difference?

`Protected' is a "modifier" which can be used with or without `Var'
in formal parameters.  `Const' parameters are the same as `protected
Var' parameters, thus `protected Var' also yields a workaround for the
"`protected' in GPI files" bug.

> Another set problem is the following:
> [...]
> Again, more or less random values. It's probably another instance of the
> problem with initialized set variables - I just wanted to mention it.

I am adding this to ... you know.  Thanks again!

> But after I could work around this, too, now my program compiles and runs with
> gpc for the first time! :-) And a whole lot faster than compiled with BP! :-)

:-) :-)

    Peter

  Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
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Peter Gerwinski (peter@agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de)