GPC Question (or bug)_(re)

Fri, 23 May 1997 01:39:14 +0200 (MET DST)

According to Phil Robertson:
> 
> I've ran into a problem compiling separate UNITS using
> "borland-pascal" style syntax. Essentially individual
> elements in an ENUM declared in an INTERFACE are not
> "recognized" by gpc-2.0:

I could reproduce this bug - and fix it.  The next alpha release
of GPC - perhaps this weekend ... or maybe we should start to call 
it a "beta" release ... - will compile your programs correctly.

> I assume no "type cast" error is reported since full
> pascal type/range checking is not as yet implemented.

Indeed.  I fixed this, too.

Thanks for reporting these bugs,

    Peter

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