September 1997 - Gpc

Re: Help running GPC on Linux 2.0.30.
by Peter Gerwinski 22 Sep '97

22 Sep '97

According to AuX: > > I keep receiving an error when trying to compile a program I just > finished. I run: 'gpc new.pas -o new' and receive 'cannot open -lgpc.' You obviously have an installation problem: The `gpc' compiler driver program cannot locate the libraries `crt0.o' and `libgpc.a'. (This is the common source of both problems you posted to this list.) It seems as if you have installed an "a.out" compiler on your ELF system. Please check whether the following directories (or something similar) exist and contain the files they should: `libgpc.a' should be in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linuxaout/2.7.2.1/ `crt0.o' should be in /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/crt0.o Alternatively, both files may be in directories which are in your library path. If you don't have them, get them from your GPC and GCC distribution. sqr (Alternatively) (if my guess is right), you can install an ELF version of GPC, available on ftp://kampi.hut.fi/jtv/gnu-pascal/binary/ or on ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/binary/. Alternatively pow 3, you can get the source of GPC (drop `binary' from the URLs above) and recompile. On a Linux system this is no real problem if you have the source of gcc-2.7.2.1 (no other version; 7MB compressed) and follow the instructions in the file `INSTALL'. Hope this helps, Peter Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer peter.gerwinski(a)uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [970201] maintainer GNU Pascal [970714] - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [970125]

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Re: Looking for some random-functions ... and maybe a bug report
by Peter Gerwinski 22 Sep '97

22 Sep '97

According to Frank Heckenbach: > > Kevin A. Foss wrote: > > > Unfortunately, I know of no easy way to test for what operating system > > EMX is currently using. > > Neither do I, that's the problem... You can get this information at run-time - and *only* at run-time since one and the same executable can run both on DOS (with and without DPMI) and on OS/2. If the variable `__osmode' contains a nonzero value, it is OS/2; if it is DOS and the variable `__emx_env' and $0180 is nonzero, it is DPMI (RSX). Greetings, Peter Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer peter.gerwinski(a)uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [970201] maintainer GNU Pascal [970714] - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [970125]

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22 Sep '97

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String comparisons
by Frank Heckenbach 21 Sep '97

21 Sep '97

I just noticed that GPC ignores trailing spaces when comparing strings with the usual operators ("=" and so on). I see that this seems to be required by the standard, and that there are othere operators ("eq" or such) for exact comparisions. However, I find this behaviour quite inconsistent and annoying (took me quite some time to figure out why s='' was true when s wasn't empty...)-:, and it would cause much trouble when porting BP programs. When using "--borland-pascal", GPC says "warning: ISO 7185 Pascal does not define string functions". So, would it be possible to make "=" and so on work as exact comparisons (at least in the "--borland-pascal" mode, and preferably also with a separate switch)? Simple test program: ;-) program x; begin writeln(''=' ') end. Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, Erlangen, Germany heckenb(a)mi.uni-erlangen.de http://home.pages.de/~fjf/links.htm

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Re: Looking for some random-functions ... and maybe a bug report
by Kevin A. Foss 21 Sep '97

21 Sep '97

On Sun, 21 Sep 1997 17:50:53 +0200, Frank Heckenbach wrote: >File Rand.Pas: [...] > IMPORTANT NOTES: > > - This unit is only intended for BP compatibility. While it should be > portable (if not, please report) Okay... >{$IFDEF __DJGPP__}{$DEFINE DOS}{$ENDIF} >{$IFDEF __EMX__}{$DEFINE DOS}{$ENDIF} IMHO, this isn't a good way to do things in a portable unit. Remember that the EMX version of GCC also works under OS/2. Trying to DOS-ish things won't go over well if you only check for __EMX__. Unfortunately, I know of no easy way to test for what operating system EMX is currently using. >{$W-} >FUNCTION __DPMI_Simulate_Real_Mode_Interrupt(Vector:Integer;VAR Regs:TDPMIRegs):Integer; C; >{$W+} Does this even work with the DOS version of EMX? It looks like some type of DPMI call but EMX doesn't DPMI without the RSX extender. Possible bug report: For the heck of it I tried compiling this Unit in OS/2 [gpc 970714]and got: [C:\kevin\pascal]gpc -c rand.pas gpc: Internal compiler error: program gpc1 got fatal signal 11 (I also get an OS/2 popup with a generic 3171 error -- this "program... can not continue.") I take it the compiler should reply with some error and not a fatal signal? Or this one of the things that has been fixed in the later betas? I get the error whether or not the $IFDEF __EMX__ line is in the code. -Kevin -- Kevin A. Foss --- kfoss(a)mint.net --

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Help running GPC on Linux 2.0.30.
by AuX 21 Sep '97

21 Sep '97

I keep receiving an error when trying to compile a program I just finished. I run: 'gpc new.pas -o new' and receive 'cannot open -lgpc.' What do I need to do to fix this?

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GPC assembler
by cagliostro 21 Sep '97

21 Sep '97

hello everybody ! I want to use the inline assembler of GPC in a function, such as function fct:integer; begin asm(" mov $10,%%eax {just an example } : : :"eax"); end; ( I learned that in the excellent GPCASM of Dario "-PrEdAtOrZ-" Anzani ) I want to set the result of the function, directly from the asm part.Is it possible ? Is there something like the @result of turbo pascal in GPC ? If no ,what is the adress of the result ? ( %esp+x, %ebp+x ?).BTW, I use GPC for DOS I hope you can help me ! Anyway, thanks for your great job BYE Patrice BOUCHAND

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Re: Looking for some random-functions ...
by Frank Heckenbach 21 Sep '97

21 Sep '97

Achim Kalwa wrote: > You can use the following external function declaration: > > FUNCTION Rand : Integer; C; > > and do the following example: > > FOR i := 1 TO 10 DO WriteLn(Rand); > > Alternatively, there is a random number generator unit called "Rand" written by > Frank Heckenbach (heckenb(a)mi.uni-erlangen.de) > > To Frank: Would you post your unit again, please? Im interested, too. The unit follows below. I did some minor changes since last time. But please note: - The changes might rely on some bug fixes in GPC that were done after the last beta release, so the unit might not work with the currently available version. But that'll not be a big problem, since the next beta will be available real soon now, and the unit should work with it then... :-) - See the notes at the beginning of the unit. -- Frank Heckenbach, Erlangen, Germany heckenb(a)mi.uni-erlangen.de http://home.pages.de/~fjf/links.htm File Rand.Pas: { Random unit for GPC for BP compatibility This package is released as part of the GNU Pascal project. IMPORTANT NOTES: - This unit is only intended for BP compatibility. While it should be portable (if not, please report), it's *not* meant to be GPC's default random generator. Especially, the range for integer randoms is only 16 bits, as in BP. OTOH, it provides the RandSeed variable, and if it's set to the same value, it produces the exact same sequence of random numbers as BP's random generator does (whoever might need this... ;-) If you don't care for such kind of compatibility, you might prefer to use the Rand/SRand C functions. (BTW: This unit uses them to initialize RandSeed on non-Dos systems, you can take that as an example on how to use them.) - Since function overloading doesn't work yet, you have to use "RandReal" instead of "Random" for real numbers. This library is a free library; you can redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with this library (see the file COPYING.LIB); if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. v1.0, September 1997, Frank Heckenbach, heckenb(a)mi.uni-erlangen.de } UNIT Rand; INTERFACE TYPE Card8 =Cardinal(8); Card16=Cardinal(16); Card32=Cardinal(32); Card64=Cardinal(64); Int32 =Integer(32); VAR RandSeed:Int32 VALUE 0; FUNCTION Random(Range:Card16):Card16; FUNCTION RandReal:Real; PROCEDURE Randomize; IMPLEMENTATION {### LOCAL $R-}{$W-,R-,W+} PROCEDURE NextRand; BEGIN RandSeed:=$8088405*RandSeed+1 END; {### END LOCAL $R} FUNCTION Random(Range:Card16):Card16; BEGIN NextRand; Random:=(Card64(RandSeed)*Range) DIV $100000000 END; FUNCTION RandReal:Real; BEGIN NextRand; RandReal:=RandSeed/$100000000+0.5 END; {$IFDEF __DJGPP__}{$DEFINE DOS}{$ENDIF} {$IFDEF __EMX__}{$DEFINE DOS}{$ENDIF} {$IFDEF DOS} TYPE PDPMIRegs=^TDPMIRegs; TDPMIRegs=RECORD CASE (d,x,h) OF d:(edi,esi,ebp,res,ebx,edx,ecx,eax:Card32); x:(di,di_hi,si,si_hi,bp,bp_hi,res_lo,res_hi,bx,bx_hi,dx,dx_hi, cx,cx_hi,ax,ax_hi,flags,es,ds,fs,gs,ip,cs,sp,ss:Card16); h:(edi_b,esi_b,ebp_b,res_b:ARRAY[0..3] OF Card8; bl,bh,ebx_b2,ebx_b3, dl,dh,edx_b2,edx_b3, cl,ch,ecx_b2,ecx_b3, al,ah,eax_b2,eax_b3:Card8) END; {$W-} FUNCTION __DPMI_Simulate_Real_Mode_Interrupt(Vector:Integer;VAR Regs:TDPMIRegs):Integer; C; {$W+} PROCEDURE Randomize; TYPE Card32LoHi=RECORD Lo,Hi:Card16 END; VAR DPMIRegs:TDPMIRegs; BEGIN DPMIRegs.ah:=$2C; {$X+} __DPMI_Simulate_Real_Mode_Interrupt($21,DPMIRegs); {$X-} WITH Card32LoHi(RandSeed) DO BEGIN Lo:=DPMIRegs.cx; Hi:=DPMIRegs.dx END END; {$ELSE} FUNCTION Rand:Integer; C; PROCEDURE SRand(Seed:Cardinal); C; FUNCTION GetPID:Integer; C; PROCEDURE Randomize; BEGIN SRand(GetPID); RandSeed:=Rand END; {$ENDIF} END.

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Re: Upgrading GPC (was: Looking for some random-functions ...)
by Orlando Llanes 21 Sep '97

21 Sep '97

>What's that - 2.01b? The last official beta version that came with >binaries was gpc-970714; after that there were some (inofficial) >patches. Doh! I goofed, I was trying to compile the sources *after* 970714, the diff file named: gpc-970714-970809.diff or soemthing like that. See ya! Orlando Llanes

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Re: Upgrading GPC (was: Looking for some random-functions ...)
by Orlando Llanes 21 Sep '97

21 Sep '97

>You mean: DJGPP binaries? Linux runs on the PC, too. Compiling the PC binaries as in compiling the source to GPC for the DOS port. >What's that - 2.01b? The last official beta version that came with >binaries was gpc-970714; after that there were some (inofficial) >patches. For me, the latest executable binaries are 2.01b, the latest sources are gpc-970714. Meaning that I can't compile the sources under DOS. I have GPC in the same directory as DJGPP. I'm beyond the patch and diff stuff, I figured that out, the problem I'm having is that some filenames get mangled. Does DJGPP's DJTAR support Win '95 LFN? I tried WinZip, which is supposed to be able to restore long filenames, but there was one particular file (for example) gcc-2.7.2.1, something like that, which didn't extract to that file name. I've even resorted to manually renaming the files, but that didn't work either. Unfortunately I may have to resort to installing Linux in order to compile the sources. I promise you this is a legit problem I'm having. >It *is* easier to get a patched source tree from Linux than it is >... >from the `p' directory. After that, compilation should work. Ok, I'll try it out as a last resort because I'll have to download Linux and the DJGPP binaries. I just want to make sure I've exhausted my PC options first. See ya! Orlando Llanes

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