Gpc April 1999

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GPC snapshot: gpc-19990409
by Peter Gerwinski 11 Apr '99

11 Apr '99

Hi, all, well ... you wanted it like that ... ;-) I have just uploaded a snapshot of the current GPC WIP code to the usual place on Agnes: ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/alpha/ I do not even guarantee this code to compile, but if you are curious, be welcome to try it out, fix bugs, and so on. Peter -- Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, http://home.pages.de/~Peter.Gerwinski/ Maintainer GNU Pascal - http://home.pages.de/~GNU-Pascal/ - gpc-19990118 PGP key on request - 6C 94 45 BE 28 A4 96 - 0E CC E9 12 47 25 82 75 *** Vote against SPAM! ********* http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ ***

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newsflash: updated mingw32 binary.
by Jan-Jaap van der Heijden 10 Apr '99

10 Apr '99

Hi all, Unfortunately, an old bug slipped through in the binary I announced yesterday. It will crash gpc-cpp when including a file. This happens when the -remap cpp option is enabled, which very few platforms do. For the interested, the fix (already submitted) was: Tue Feb 23 21:55:09 1999 J.J. van der Heijden <J.J.vanderHeijden(a)student.utwente.nl> * gpc-cccp.c (do_include): Initialize searchptr->fname --- gpc-cccp.c.orig Thu Jan 7 02:34:50 1999 +++ gpc-cccp.c Tue Feb 23 21:50:43 1999 @@ -5083,6 +5083,8 @@ fname[0] = 0; } strncat (fname, (char *) fbeg, flen); + searchptr->fname = (char *) xmalloc (flen + 1); + strncpy (searchptr->fname, fname, flen); #ifdef VMS /* Change this 1/2 Unix 1/2 VMS file specification into a full VMS file specification */ (to peter: of course this is the modifed fix). Anyway, I updated the binary. For those who have the old binary: you can also fix this by removing "-remap" from cpp options in "specs". Thanks to the Chief for informing me about this glitch. JanJaap --- GNU mingw32: http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32

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GNU Pascal 2.0 trouble
by Svetoslav B. Alexandroff 10 Apr '99

10 Apr '99

Hello. I downloaded from Linuxberg gpc-19990118.tar.gz and tried to compile it =using GCC 2.8.1 under FreeBSD 2.2.7. Everything was great, but make did =not produce gpc1. I have no idea why, I did eveything as exactly чscribed in the INSTALL document. Where is my mistake? My e-mail is: alexandroff(a)gmx.net

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Problems compiling 19990118
by Morten S. Jensen 10 Apr '99

10 Apr '99

I am trying to compile gpc-19990118 on Alpha DEC OSF/1 v.4.0 I have met a couple of problems that I have corrected (listed below), but eventually the make in p/rts stops with the message "Don't know how to make write.pas.". Does anyone know how to treat this error? Please send me a copy of the reply as I have only just asked to join the mailing list. Morten ----------------------- The following fixes were necessary in order to compile with DEC's C-compiler: 'p/gpc-typeck.c' line 3560: 'p/types.c' line 959: change from default: to default:; 'p/Makefile.in' line 139: change from ALL_WARNINGS = -Wall to # ALL_WARNINGS = -Wall 'p/gpc-cccp.c' line 149 change from #else to #else -------------------------------------------- Morten Skaarup Jensen Department of Acoustic Technology Technical University of Denmark Bygning 352 DK-2800 Lyngby Denmark Direct: (+45) 45 25 39 54 Fax: (+45) 45 88 05 77 Recep.: (+45) 45 88 16 22 http://www.dat.dtu.dk/~msj

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GNU Pascal website updated
by Peter Gerwinski 10 Apr '99

10 Apr '99

Hello, in order to address recent developments, we have done a major update on the GNU Pascal website, http://home.pages.de/~GNU-Pascal/ . The `about' section now lists the features of gpc-19990118 with example programs (which BTW are also part of the GPC distribtion (subdirectory `demos')). The online documentation now reflects the current state of what is distributed with GPC. Comments welcome, Peter -- Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, http://home.pages.de/~Peter.Gerwinski/ Maintainer GNU Pascal - http://home.pages.de/~GNU-Pascal/ - gpc-19990118 PGP key on request - 6C 94 45 BE 28 A4 96 - 0E CC E9 12 47 25 82 75 *** Vote against SPAM! ********* http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ ***

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Re: Compiler bug
by Jan-Jaap van der Heijden 10 Apr '99

10 Apr '99

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, The African Chief wrote: > Hi Peter and Jan-Jaap! > > > > > Hi, please, have a few days patience. I fried my /usr disk > > > > :-( You seem to be an expert in frying disks ... ;-)-: > > I was also beginning to think so ;/ Fortunately, most scsi hardware comes with a 5 year warranty :-) I've put a gcc-2.8.1 based mingw32 gpc binary (19990118) on agnes. That means it doesn't have the egcs related new(pfile) bug. Have fun, JanJaap --- GNU mingw32: http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32

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Interesting cross-compiler behaviour
by Jo Dillon 10 Apr '99

10 Apr '99

I'm trying to build a Linux/Intel compiler to generate PowerPC/AIX binaries (as part of my ongoing quest not to use the Codewarrior pascal compiler). I've been following the instructs in http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC. These instructions work fine when building a non-gpc-patched version of egcs 1.1.1, but the gpc-patched version goes into some sort of recursive make - it spews out the following over and over again, making a new make each time, until it hits about 200 make processes, whereupon they all exit and the process aborts with an error. The circular dependency thing looks interesting...any ideas? make[1]: Entering directory `/home/root/cross/build-gcc/gcc' if [ -f libgcc2.ready ] ; then \ true; \ else \ touch libgcc2.ready; \ fi make[1]: Circular cplib2.ready <- pascal dependency dropped. for i in `/home/root/cross/build-gcc/gcc/xgcc -B/home/root/cross/build-gcc/gcc/ --print-multi-lib`; do \ dir=`echo $i | sed -e 's/;.*$//'`; \ flags=`echo $i | sed -e 's/^[^;]*;//' -e 's/@/ -/g'`; \ make GCC_FOR_TARGET="/home/root/cross/build-gcc/gcc/xgcc -B/home/root/cross/build-gcc/gcc/" \ AR="powerpc-ibm-aix4.2-ar" AR_FLAGS="rc" CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O2" \ RANLIB="powerpc-ibm-aix4.2-ranlib" RANLIB_TEST="[ -f powerpc-ibm-aix4.2-ranlib ] || ( [ "i586-pc-linux-gnu" = "powerpc-ibm-aix4.2" ] && [ -f /usr/bin/ranlib -o -f /bin/ranlib ] )" \ LANGUAGES="c proto gcov c++ f77 pascal" \ HOST_PREFIX="" HOST_PREFIX_1="loser-" \ LIBGCC2_CFLAGS="-O2 -I/usr/include -DCROSS_COMPILE -DIN_GCC -g -O2 -I./include -g1 -DIN_LIBGCC2 -D__GCC_FLOAT_NOT_NEEDED ${flags}" \ MULTILIB_CFLAGS="${flags}" \ LIBGCC1="" LIBGCC2="libgcc2.a" \ dir="${dir}" stmp-multilib-sub; \ if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then true; else exit 1; fi; \ done make[2]: Entering directory `/home/root/cross/build-gcc/gcc' rm -f libgcc2.a if [ -d . ]; then \ cd .; \ rm -f libgcc.a ; \ else true; \ fi make GCC_FOR_TARGET="/home/root/cross/build-gcc/gcc/xgcc -B/home/root/cross/build-gcc/gcc/" \ AR="powerpc-ibm-aix4.2-ar" AR_FLAGS="rc" CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O2" \ HOST_PREFIX="" HOST_PREFIX_1="loser-" \ LANGUAGES="c proto gcov c++ f77 pascal" \ LIBGCC2_CFLAGS="-O2 -I/usr/include -DCROSS_COMPILE -DIN_GCC -g -O2 -I./include -g1 -DIN_LIBGCC2 -D__GCC_FLOAT_NOT_NEEDED " libgcc2.a -- Jo

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Gpc and MacOS?
by Jo Dillon 10 Apr '99

10 Apr '99

Is there any way - any way at all - to get GPC to produce MacOS binaries? I have a huge chunk of code in Turbo Pascal-flavoured Object Pascal I need to port to the Mac. Metrowerks' Object Pascal compiler speaks a different dialect of the language - no virtual keyword (override's instead), no polymorphic functions (you can only override if you use the same parameters), and no constructors or destructors. Does anyone have any idea how this might be achieved? Getting 60,000-odd lines of Object Pascal to compile on the Mac is going to be a nightmare. -- Jo

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Small and unimportant suggestion
by Jo Dillon 10 Apr '99

10 Apr '99

Perhaps you could indicate (in the diffs directory of the source) which release numbers of egcs the patches correspond to? If you've just downloaded egcs 1.1.1 and haven't built it yet it's hard to find out that it's actually egcs-2.91.60; if you /have/ built it yet then it's a bit late to patch the source. -- Jo

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Re: FV4GPC (was Free Vision)
by The African Chief 10 Apr '99

10 Apr '99

Peter Gerwinski wrote: > > The African Chief wrote: > > > > I do not have the energy, time, or even the knowhow to port the > > other FV units (especially those with asm code in them) to GPC, > > so others will have to take on that task on (IIRC Peter is > > looking into doing this - am I right, Peter?). > > Yes, but the amount of other things I have to do is ... well ... > nicht mehr feierlich (= no more solemn; means: no joke). > Better don't hold your breath. :-( Ok. Are there any other takers? > > AFAICS the FV license terms are not GPL compatible and there may > > be other copyright issues that will make the ported FV Objects > > unit not distributable with GPC. > > That's indeed a problem, but I think that they did not decide to > be incompatible to the GPL but just wrote their license in a > careless way. I would be glad if someone could take over the > negotiations. I wrote to the alleged overseer of the FV project quite a while ago - I never got any response. I suppose I could write to Florian Klaempfl (who oversees the FPC development) and see what he can do. > > If anyone is interested, I can > > make a copy of my current "development" version available > > (perhaps on my homepage). > > I can set up a link to that project from the main GPC homepage > if that makes some sense. Or else we can place a homepage for > the FV4GPC project on Agnes in the GPC homepage tree. > > Any thoughts? I would think that Agnes is the best place for it, so the latter idea seems preferable. Basically, I have finished with the Objects unit. That could probably go on immediately (with the caveats [a] that EGCS-based GPC users on Linux and Win32 will not be able to compile the unit until the "New(pFile)" problem is solved, [b] that, for those on Solaris, etc., there may be "endian" issues that I am unaware of). We could just put the Objects unit there, since that is already ported to GPC - or we could put the whole package there for people to see what is required to port the rest of the units to GPC. Any thoughts? -- Best regards, Dr Abimbola A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) Author of Chief's Installer Pro v5.0 for Win32 Email: laa12(a)keele.ac.uk Homepage: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/African_Chief

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