New GPC beta: gpc-971001_(re)

Wed, 8 Oct 1997 02:03:41 +0200 (MEST)

According to Maurice Lombardi:
> 
> - The test\extended\time.pas works OK with the bash shell, but is broken
> with ordinary command.com DOS shell (or Win3.11 DOS box): [...]

I cannot reproduce this. :-(

> - more important: when trying to compile the unit System.pas contained
> in BPcompat 1.0 I get a SIGSEGV error, [...]

Frank has tracked down this error to the following:
:
: unit system;
: interface
: implementation
: 
: var junk:integer;
: 
: to begin do
:   for junk := 1 to 1 do;
: 
: end.
(Vielen Dank, Frank!)

... so I will be able to hunt it now.  :-)

    Peter

 Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [971005]
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Peter Gerwinski (peter@agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de)