Pascal Compiler Bug_(re)

Thu, 20 Mar 1997 14:25:56 +0100 (MET)

According to Gareth Wilson:
> The following code, especially the Arrays, causes GPC1.EXE to page fault. I
> think this is a bug of the compiler because if I comment them out the 
> compiler runs (complaining about invalid reference to Colours, Cmds, etc.)

Yes, this was an error in GPC.

It is corrected in recent Alpha versions of GPC.  Look at

    ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/alpha/

However there are still known problems with initializers.  For example
array indices and field names are ignored in initializers; the components
of a structured variable are always initialized in order.

Hope this helps,

    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)