Gpc May 2002

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GPC v2.1 - Win32 binaries
by Prof. A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) 13 May '02

13 May '02

Hi all I have released Win32 (Cygwin, and Mingw32) binaries for GPC 2.1: http://gnu-pascal.de/contrib/chief/win32/cygwin/ http://gnu-pascal.de/contrib/chief/win32/mingw32/ Enjoy! Best regards, The Chief --------- Prof. Abimbola Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) Email: African_Chief(a)bigfoot.com http://www.bigfoot.com/~african_chief/

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Re: [Forwarded] GPC 2.1 released
by Matthias Klose 12 May '02

12 May '02

[CC ing the gpc list as well] Neil Booth writes: > Andreas Jaeger wrote:- > > > > > GPC is still using GCC 2.95. Are there plans to support GCC 3.1 - and > > to integrate GPC into the GCC repository? > > I hope so - I'd like to see that happen. Looks like missing resources: http://www.gnu-pascal.de/crystal/gpc/en/mail6394.html?pos=20026990#20026990 http://www.gnu-pascal.de/crystal/gpc/en/table-mail6789.html Would gpc given a chance to be integrated in a 3.1 point release?

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GPC 2.1 released
by Frank Heckenbach 10 May '02

10 May '02

This is the announcement of GNU Pascal, version 2.1 which is now available from http://www.gnu-pascal.de/current/ Binaries for some platforms are available in a subdirectory http://www.gnu-pascal.de/binary/ Binaries for more platforms will follow soon and will be announced on the GPC mailing list which is archived at http://www.gnu-pascal.de/crystal/gpc/en/ About GNU Pascal ================ The GNU Pascal Compiler (GPC) is part of the GNU compiler family, GNU CC or GCC. It combines a Pascal front-end with the proven GNU C back-end for code generation and optimization. Unlike utilities such as p2c, this is a true compiler, not just a converter. The purpose of the GNU Pascal project is to produce a Pascal compiler which * combines the clarity of Pascal with powerful tools suitable for real-life programming, * supports both the Pascal standard and the Extended Pascal standard as defined by ISO, ANSI and IEEE (ISO 7185:1990, ISO/IEC 10206:1991, ANSI/IEEE 770X3.160-1989), * supports other Pascal standards (UCSD Pascal, Borland Pascal, parts of Borland Delphi and Pascal-SC) in so far as this serves the goal of clarity and usability, * may be distributed under GNU license conditions, and * can generate code for and run on any computer for which the GNU C compiler can generate code and run on. Pascal was originally designed for teaching. GNU Pascal provides a smooth way to proceed to challenging programming tasks without learning a completely different language. The current release GPC 2.1 implements Standard Pascal (ISO 7185, levels 0 and 1), a large subset of Extended Pascal (ISO 10206, aiming for full compliance), is highly compatible to Borland Pascal (version 7.0) with some Delphi extensions, and provides a lot of useful GNU extensions. For more information about GNU Pascal, see http://www.gnu-pascal.de Changes since the previous release ================================== The previous release (GPC 2.0) was more than five years ago. Since then, there have been numerous alpha and beta versions and literally hundreds of new features and bug fixes. Trying to list them here, even if only as a summary, would be far beyond the scope of such an announcement. You can find descriptions of the new features since 1999-01-18 at http://www.gnu-pascal.de/current/news-2.1.html and a detailed list of all new features and bug fixes since 1997-11-01 at http://www.gnu-pascal.de/current/done-2.1.html In short, a large number of bugs have been fixed, so GPC 2.1 works much more stable than its predecessor versions. Also, many relics that made it sometimes look somewhat like a C compiler rather than a Pascal compiler have been cleared up. Compared to GPC 2.0, the support of ISO 7185 Standard Pascal as well as Borland Pascal has been mostly completed. Borland Pascal support includes object oriented programming and a set of compatibility units. Much of ISO 10206 Extended Pascal is now supported, including schema types (i.e., types whose size can vary at runtime), complex numbers, set extensions and more. Some features of other Pascal standards and dialects are supported, such as operator overloading (Pascal-SC) and some OOP extensions (Delphi). GPC also contains many extensions not found in other Pascal compilers, e.g. to ease the interfacing with C and other languages in a portable way, and to work with files, directories, dates and more, mostly independent of the underlying operating system. A number of useful units is included with GPC, such as `RegEx' (regular expressions), `GMP' (arithmetic with integer, rational and real numbers of unlimited size), `Trap' (trapping runtime errors), `Intl' (internationalization), `Pipe' (inter-process communication), `MD5' (message digests) and many more. GPC includes a number of demo programs to show the usage of these units and of many compiler features. Further units, Pascal programs and other 3rd party contributions can be found at http://www.gnu-pascal.de/contrib/ Have fun, The GNU Pascal development team

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GPC Online Documentation/Manual WWW Links
by Jing Gloria 08 May '02

08 May '02

thanks for the prompt response. I must have missed the announcemnt of the web site move. I have updated by browser bookmarks. Pls accept also my apologies for the HTML embedded in my original e-mail. This is due to our company mail server. I hope the Yahoo mail server sends this in true plain text format. Regards, Jing Gloria Texas Instruments Sherman, Tx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com

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Re: final steps for gpc compile
by Emil Jerabek 06 May '02

06 May '02

Tom Schneider wrote: > Emil: > > Last month you described in detail how to install gpc. Almost everything > worked, but I can't install as root on the system since I am not an admin. > > Your instructions were: > > Install (as root): > > cd gcc > make pascal.install-with-gcc > > For laughs I tried it: > > /users/tds/now/gpc/gpc-build/gcc> make pascal.install-with-gcc > make: don't know how to make pascal.install-with-gcc. Stop > > Oh well! I didn't expect it to work, but this mesage is not right - it should > have objected about permissiones or something. Strange. I admit that I've never used this make target personally, maybe I just misinterpreted the docs. Anyway, if you need to install GPC in other place than /usr/local/bin, you must tell it to `configure' _before_ the compilation, e.g. ../gcc-2.95.2/configure --prefix=/some/dir --enable-languages=pascal This puts binaries into /some/dir/bin, the manual into /some/dir/info etc. If you install this way in a personal directory, it doesn't matter much which make target you use, so if `make pascal.install-with-gcc' doesn't work, do simple `make install' (from the build directory, not from its gcc subdirectory). Emil > > How do I do the final step to install in a directory that I pick? > > Thanks, > Tom

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GPC 2.1 RC 8 released
by Frank Heckenbach 02 May '02

02 May '02

Hi everyone, GPC version 20020502, the release candidate #8 for GPC 2.1, has been uploaded to http://www.gnu-pascal.de/current/gpc-20020502.tar.gz A diff against RC 7 can be found at http://www.gnu-pascal.de/current/gpc-20020426-20020502.diff.gz This version contains only small changes compared to RC 7, mostly concerning the compiler driver (the `gpc' executable) and the test under Cygwin and mingw. Since there have been no new bug reports in the last several days, I have some hope that this might be the final RC for GPC 2.1. Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank(a)g-n-u.de, http://fjf.gnu.de/, 7977168E GPC To-Do list, latest features, fixed bugs: http://www.gnu-pascal.de/todo.html

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GPC Online Documentation/Manual WWW Links
by Gloria, Jing 02 May '02

02 May '02

Is the GPC on-line documentation server down? http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~gnu-pascal I have tried accessing it the past few days and I am always getting a URL Not Found error. Can somebody pls advise administrator to restore the server? Is there any other mirror for this documentation? Thanks in advance for any assistance. Regards, Jing Gloria Texas Instruments Sherman, Texas

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Problem with linking
by Silvio a Beccara 02 May '02

02 May '02

Hi everybody, I'm trying to write a wrapper unit (called mpichwrap.pas) for the MPICH parallel programming library, with the same aim as for the LAM-MPI. When trying to compile a simple test program, called Prova9, with the command: gpc -L/fastcl/mpich-1.2.2/lib/ prova9.pas -o prova9 gpc is version: Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.2/specs gpc version 20020318, based on 2.95.2 19991024 (release), running on a Linux machine. I get the following errors: /tmp/ccAmOjTJ1.o: In function `pascal_main_program': /tmp/ccAmOjTJ1.o(.text+0xc6): undefined reference to `MPI_Init' /tmp/ccAmOjTJ1.o(.text+0xdc): undefined reference to `MPI_Comm_size' /tmp/ccAmOjTJ1.o(.text+0xf2): undefined reference to `MPI_Comm_rank' /tmp/ccAmOjTJ1.o(.text+0x157e): undefined reference to `MPI_Barrier' /tmp/ccAmOjTJ1.o(.text+0x18c9): undefined reference to `MPI_Scatterv' /tmp/ccAmOjTJ1.o(.text+0x1bbe): undefined reference to `MPI_Gatherv' /tmp/ccAmOjTJ1.o(.text+0x2464): undefined reference to `MPI_Finalize' /tmp/ccAmOjTJ1.o: In function `init_pascal_main_program': /tmp/ccAmOjTJ1.o(.text+0x248f): undefined reference to `init_Mpichwrap' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status The linking instruction in the wrapper is as follows: {$L mpich} referring to the library libmpich.a It seems that the linker cannot link the object code. All the calls are to library functions. Anyone can help? Thank you in advance, best regards Silvio a Beccara

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