Gpc December 1997

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using Pascal binaries
by Victor Sperber 08 Dec '97

08 Dec '97

I wanted to get Pascal from the GNU. Not being sufficiently knowledgeable to get the source and compile it, I opted for getting the binaries. I read the GNU Pascal FAQS and brought over cygwin32 beta16 (and later 17) and expanded them in order to run Pascal under Windows95. However on running gpc.exe I get "a required DLL file CYGWIN.DLL was not found". This is the case on the 16 and 17 packages. Is there something I need to do to get Pascal to run apart from executing it? I have searched my disk and it is true that there is no such DLL. Should it come with binaries in the package, or do I have to get it from somewhere else? The dir structure looks ok, I have bin,lib, hlp and test directories. However, I seem to need some more HLP. Thanks, -- Victor Sperber

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Re: [gpc-2.0] gcc version number mismatch
by Peter Gerwinski 07 Dec '97

07 Dec '97

According to Karl Heuer: > I need to build the latest gcc and gpc for a Deluxe Distribution. > The current version of gcc is 2.7.2.3, but gpc-2.0 is expecting > 2.7.2.1. I think 2.7.2.3 is nearly identical to 2.7.2.1, so maybe > I can just change gpc's Makefile.in so that it expects 2.7.2.3. > Do you know if this should work? This works. However the current beta version gpc-971001 is already much more stable than gpc-2.0; I hope that we will be able to release gpc-2.1 soon. You can get it from ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/beta/gpc-971001.tar.gz Greetings, Peter Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer peter.gerwinski(a)uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [971005] maintainer GNU Pascal [971001] - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [971005]

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ISO-10206 Extended Pascal for GNU Pascal
by Peter Gerwinski 06 Dec '97

06 Dec '97

(Posted to comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso and to the GNU Pascal mailing list, gpc at hut dot fi.) Hello, Extended Pascal experts! We need your help to increase the compliance of the GNU Pascal compiler (GPC) to the ISO-10206 Extended Pascal standard. 1) We need a test suite to check in how far GNU Pascal does comply to the EP standard. (Our aim is 100%.) Does anyone know where to get such a thing? 2) The standard says that not only files, but also other Pascal entities may be bound to external entities, but the effect of such a binding is "implementation dependent". How do other implementations handle this? (* In case you don't know: GNU Pascal is a portable 32-bit Pascal compiler. It is Free Software according to the GNU General Public License. The current beta version (gpc-971001) supports most of ISO-10206 Extended Pascal as well as most of Borland Pascal 7.0. For more information, see our WWW pages, http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/. *) Thanks in advance, Peter Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer peter.gerwinski(a)uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [971005] maintainer GNU Pascal [971001] - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [971005]

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"Time" bug - good news
by The African Chief 06 Dec '97

06 Dec '97

Hiya all, I have just discovered that the "time bug" which I reported a few days ago (in DJGPP) is not a bug in the GPC compiler at all. It it seems to have been caused by a bad parameter passed at the command line ("-extended-pascal", instead of "--extended-pascal"), which causes ld.exe to give a warning, and then produces a buggy .EXE file. Sorry for leading Peter and Frank on a wild goose chase! Best regards, The Chief -------- Dr. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) Email: laa12(a)keele.ac.uk Homepage: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/African_Chief/ Author of: Chief's Installer Pro 4.01 for Win16 and Win32: http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win3/install/chief401.zip

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Re: File/Record locking on Linux with GPC
by Frank Heckenbach 06 Dec '97

06 Dec '97

The African Chief wrote: > I was not talking about the date/time format at all. I was > talking about the actual values that are displayed. I just ran > the program again, and this is the output (DJGPP, running under > Windows NT v4.0): > > "327680.786432.130875392 851968:2490368:2424832" > > That is what I mean by "unintelligible". I don't know how to > translate these values into something that means something to > human beings. Ah, OK, that's something different -- namely a bug... :-( Of course, there should be no need for any translation, as the values in the time stamp should be the actual time -- and that's what they are on my Linux box. Perhaps it's the same bug that was reported about test\extended\time.pas in <34396148.5C71(a)ujf-grenoble.fr>, but I'll record this, too. Thanks for the bug report... :-| I'll take a look into the RTS and see if I can find something wrong. However, since I don't see the bug I'm not sure if I can find the problem... -- Frank Heckenbach, Erlangen, Germany fjf(a)gmx.de http://home.pages.de/~fjf/links.htm

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Re: File/Record locking on Linux with GPC
by Peter Gerwinski 05 Dec '97

05 Dec '97

According to Maurice Lombardi: > > Perhaps it's the same bug that was reported about test\extended\time.pas > > in <34396148.5C71(a)ujf-grenoble.fr>, but I'll record this, too. Thanks > > for the bug report... :-| > No it is different. I have checked that this old bug is still there, > while the example of the Chief works fine on my machine. > (All is made in plain DOS/ DJGPP v2.1, > the old bug did not appear under bash shell in the same machine) I suspect that this bug is not in GPC but in the DJGPP port of the UNIX function `gettimeofday'. Maybe the `bash' shell catches and "repairs" the DOS interrupt? I don't know ... Maybe we should re-write `_p_gettimestamp' for the MSDOS target using the interrupt directly? The other bug reported by The African Chief *might* have the same reason. A lot of guessing, sorry ... Peter Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer peter.gerwinski(a)uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [971005] maintainer GNU Pascal [971001] - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [971005]

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Re: binary gpc2.0 for Solaris 2.5.1
by Frank Heckenbach 05 Dec '97

05 Dec '97

Hi Javier, I have successfully installed the Solaris binary on the computers at the math institute of our university -- exactly on the 20th anniversary of the computer station. :-) When the next beta version of GPC comes out, can you please provide me a binary of this, too? Then I could run the test suite on the sparcs and make sure there are no new bugs, before we can finally release GPC 2.1. Regards, Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, Erlangen, Germany fjf(a)gmx.de http://home.pages.de/~fjf/links.htm

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GPC article
by The African Chief 05 Dec '97

05 Dec '97

Hi all, This month's edition of the Developers Review (sister magazine of the Delphi Magazine) carries an article on GPC, written by (yours truly!! :-)). I I have already had an email about it! Best regards, The Chief -------- Dr. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) Email: laa12(a)keele.ac.uk Homepage: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/African_Chief/ Author of: Chief's Installer Pro 4.01 for Win16 and Win32: http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win3/install/chief401.zip

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by Ron Perrella 05 Dec '97

05 Dec '97

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Re: File/Record locking on Linux with GPC
by Peter Gerwinski 05 Dec '97

05 Dec '97

According to Pismo: > I have posted in the Borland Delphi group(s)that I use GPC and the > Delphi command line compiler to write CGIs on Linux and NT that > ported with very few mods. :-) Good news! > Have you considered a GPC newsgroup, and if so do you need somewhere > to host it? I'll be putting up a NNTP server to spool local > newsgroups for the ISP where my server is hosted and would be able to > add a group for GPC. Can one simply create a new Newsgroup "just like that"? I think that you can do so only for "alt.*" Newsgroups, and for a GNU Pascal Newsgroup the "natural" name would be "comp.lang.pascal.gnu". The host would not be a problem, but doesn't the creation of a new Newsgroup require some voting etc.? It also would be nice to do it like the DJGPP guys and to route the mailing list into the Newsgroup and vice versa. If you can help to solve these problems, it would be highly welcome. > Also if you want to quote anything I've said in email on the GPC-list > I had assumed it would probably be forwarded there anyway. I only > wrote you directly because my posts had been rejected with that error > I sent you recently. The error message can be ignored; your messages went through to the list members. (I am CCing this e-mail to the list and will probably get the same error message again.) > Thanks a bunch, and I really appreciate your efforts producing GPC. You are welcome. :-) Greetings, Peter Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer peter.gerwinski(a)uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [971005] maintainer GNU Pascal [971001] - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [971005]

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