Objects (was: Bug in GPC!?)

Mon, 31 Mar 1997 03:11:45 +0200 (MET DST)

According to Sven Engelhardt:
> [...]
> Now I want to insert another Object Type, say TResult. Just declared the
> Object Type like this:
> [...]
> Remember: I didn't access anything new. I really only DECLARED that new 
> type. I tried to track down the Problem to only a few lines of code, but 
> everything runs fine. 

This is probably an occurrence of the "crazy objects bug" - see my mail
to this list from 7 Feb 1997, available in the GPC mailing list archive,

    ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/misc/gpc-list.1997.gz

> So now i'm a little bit braindead,

So was I when I detected that bug! :-)

But don't worry, this bug is (or should be) fixed in GPC alpha versions
after 7 Feb 1997.  I recommend to upgrade to the most recent alpha GPC
(which will become obsolete in the next days), available at

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

In case some other things break with the current version, please try
gpc-970208; the changes from gpc-970208 to gpc-970215 were somehow risky.

In any case, please report it if you encounter bugs in the current alpha
GPC version.

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)