November 2000 - Gpc

keywords of gpc
by Thorsten Hindermann 22 Nov '00

22 Nov '00

Hi! I have a special question to Frank and/or Peter: can you tell me a place (in the Web or in the gpc-sources) where I can find all supported keywords of gpc. The best way are they sorted to any supported dialect by gpc (e.g. UCSD,Borland,ISO7186 ...). I need this information for the pindent project. Thanx Thorsten

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RH7.0
by Marius Onica 19 Nov '00

19 Nov '00

Hi everybody, What about using gpc under RH7.0 . As I've read gpc is working with gcc 2.95, but under RH7.0 I have gcc 2.96. Now what to do ? I've tried to compile gcc 2.95+gpc but it failed so I don't know what to do. Any suggestion is welcomed! TIA, Marius

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build problems with gcc-2.95.2 and gpc on the Hurd
by Matthias Klose 18 Nov '00

18 Nov '00

Did somebody succeed in building gpc on the Hurd?

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Recent gpc alpha releases fail to build on linux archs other i386/m68k
by Matthias Klose 18 Nov '00

18 Nov '00

[Sent this report to Peter in private, but he may be busy with the German LinuxTag?] Currently gpc does not bootstrap with gcc-2.95.2 on Linux (glibc-2.1.94) on architectures other than i386 and m68k. This report is from the alpha arch. ../.././xgcc -B/usr/alpha-linux/bin/ -B../.././ -I/usr/alpha-linux/include -c -I. -W -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -g -O2 -DRTS_RELEASE_STRING="'`cat /src/gcc/2.95.2-16/gcc-2.95.2/src-native/gcc/p/rts/rts-version`'" -Wno-unused -Wno-missing-declarations -Wno-missing-prototypes /src/gcc/2.95.2-16/gcc-2.95.2/src-native/gcc/p/rts/rts-va.c /src/gcc/2.95.2-16/gcc-2.95.2/src-native/gcc/p/rts/rts-va.c:51: macro `va_start' used with just one arg /src/gcc/2.95.2-16/gcc-2.95.2/src-native/gcc/p/rts/rts-va.c:247: macro `va_start' used with just one arg /src/gcc/2.95.2-16/gcc-2.95.2/src-native/gcc/p/rts/rts-va.c:289: macro `va_start' used with just one arg /src/gcc/2.95.2-16/gcc-2.95.2/src-native/gcc/p/rts/rts-va.c:434: macro `va_start' used with just one arg /src/gcc/2.95.2-16/gcc-2.95.2/src-native/gcc/p/rts/rts-va.c:482: macro `va_start' used with just one arg make[5]: *** [rts-va.o] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory `/src/gcc/2.95.2-16/gcc-2.95.2/build-native/gcc/p/rts' make[4]: *** [pascal.rts] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory `/src/gcc/2.95.2-16/gcc-2.95.2/build-native/gcc' make[3]: *** [boot_stage_c] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/src/gcc/2.95.2-16/gcc-2.95.2/build-native/gcc' make[2]: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/src/gcc/2.95.2-16/gcc-2.95.2/build-native' s=`cat status`; rm -f status; test $s -eq 0 make[1]: *** [stamps/05-build-stamp-native] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/src/gcc/2.95.2-16/gcc-2.95.2' make: *** [stamps/05-build-stamp-native] Error 2

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Cast Function to Procedure
by Eike Lange 17 Nov '00

17 Nov '00

Hi! I'm trying to cast a Function to a procedure, but my little program fails with a "Segmentation fault". Could anyone please tell me, what is wrong? 8<------- (snip) ---------------- Program TestIt; Type bar = Procedure(a:Integer); Var BarFunc : bar; Function FooFunc(a:Integer) : Integer; Begin Writeln('I am of foo with:', a); FooFunc := a+1 End; Begin Writeln('FooFunc(3) is ', FooFunc(3)); Writeln('now bar(FooFunc(2))'); BarFunc := bar(FooFunc(2)); BarFunc(2) End. ------- (snap) ---------------->8 Thank you Eike

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Bye
by Menno Schaap 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

Later I will unsubscribe from this list. The project we had in mind will not continue yet. It will later, so perhaps you will see me back in this list. I appreciate the help, and I wish you all the best. Greetings, Menno Schaap

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Linking with C
by Nic Webb 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

I'm using the example I saw in the GNU pascal documentation on how to link pascal with C (calling a C function from pascal). The example uses "asmname", which I know very little about. When I compile the .pas file, I get a slew of errors saying: comma missing after identifier `Asmname' parse error before character constant (that shows up once for every line I have asmname on... when I add the --automake option to the gpc command line, it also tells me that it can't execute my program (no such file or directory). I can't compile without automake because for some reason gpc isn't able to find any valid units without it (omitting it gives me "module/unit interface `Gpc' could not be imported"). can anyone help out? -Nic

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Re: Gnu-DBM
by Eike Lange 15 Nov '00

15 Nov '00

Hi Phil and all. On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 08:57:28AM -0800, Phil Nelson wrote: > >Well, I think I have to care on my own for the truth > >about this topic and ask the FSF for details. > I happen to be the author of gdbm. Jason Downs > (downsj(a)downsj.com) is the current maintainer. > He hasn't done much since 1999, but here is the > last ChangeLog entry: [...] > Now, it is certainly true that Berkeley DB has more features and works > cross platform better than gdbm. There is no question there. But > there is still a maintainer for gdbm and there has been a recent > release. (May 1999.) Thank you Phil. So I am sorry for this topic. I trusted the documentaton of my distribution. Ok, I maintain Gnu DBM - Unit furthermore. Eike

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Problem configuring gpc
by Joe Hartley 15 Nov '00

15 Nov '00

I'm trying to install gpc 2.0 (20001113) on my Sparc 2 running SunOS 4.1.4 and gcc 2.95.2. Gcc installed with no trouble at all, but during the configure process, I run into a problem. Here's the command I used: zappa:~/source/p% /usr3/source/gcc-2.95.2/configure --enable-languages=pascal I get to the "Configuring gcc..." section, and the process dies with the following message: checking assembler alignment features... checking assembler subsection support... checking assembler instructions... /usr3/source/gcc-2.95.2/gcc/configure: test: argument expected Configure in /usr3/source/p/gcc failed, exiting. Has anyone seen this particular problem? The GCC is the version from the gpc site, and it configured, compiled and installed with no problem at all. Thanks! -- ====================================================================== Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh(a)brainiac.com 12 Emma G Lane, Narragansett, RI 02882 - vox 401.782.9042 Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa

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Val
by Frank Heckenbach 15 Nov '00

15 Nov '00

The GPC reference claims that the 3rd parameter of Val is optional: : procedure Val (const Source: String; var x: INTEGER OR REAL); : or : procedure Val (const Source: String; var x: INTEGER OR REAL; : var ErrorCode: Integer); However, that's not the case in GPC (neither in BP from which the Val procedure comes). Thanks to Nicola Girardi for pointing out this discrepancy. Though there are cases where one might want to ignore the 3rd parameter (such as if it was checked before calling Val that the string consists only of digits, or at least has a starting digit and one is willing to ignore trailing "garbage"), but IMHO they're rare enough that they don't justify another syntax extension. So I suggest to "fix" the documentation by removing the first part. -- Of course, I could've just done that, but perhaps someone disagrees... Also, maybe someone interested in writing/maintaining documentation might want to take this as a start (and perhaps write some words about Val in the reference while they're at it :-)... Minor note: The name of the parameter should by `ErrorPosition' rather than `ErrorCode' (the BP documentation also calls it `Code', but we shouldn't copy their mistakes, it's not a code, just a position)... Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank(a)g-n-u.de, http://fjf.gnu.de/ GPC To-Do list, latest features, fixed bugs: http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~gnu-pascal/todo.html

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