October 2003 - Gpc

Two sites to exchange links with
by Bryan Dowse 23 Oct '03

23 Oct '03

Hi, my name is Bryan Dowse. I would like to exchange links with your web site. We are willing to add a link to your web site, with a description, from both www.email-marketing-software-resource.com and http://www.search-engines-guide.com. Sites to link to: http://www.email-marketing-software-resource.com http://www.search-engines-guide.com Where your link will be: http://www.email-marketing-software-resource.com/resource/ http://www.search-engines-guide.com/resource/ Each of the above links pages is directly accessible from the respective site's home page as well as all in-site pages. If you would link to the above two sites and send me an email letting me know where, we will have a link to your site up on both, with your description, within 24 hours. With your email please send me a 5-30 word description of your site to follow your link. If you wish to use a description for our sites, you may use: ---------------------------------- Search-engines-guide.com Provides information on search engine optimization and the best selling search engine book Obtaining a #1 Ranking in the Search Engines. Email-marketing-software-resource.com A resource for anyone wanting to learn about permission-based email marketing, sending out a newsletter, managing an email list, and the different email list management programs. ---------------------------------- If you wish to use graphics for your links, you can pick them up at http://www.email-marketing-software-resource.com/linkpartners.html. I thank you for your consideration. My very best regards, Bryan Dowse, Director Email Marketing Resource Center http://www.email-marketing-software-resource.com

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Gnu Pascal running on 64-bit Linux or Windows?
by Dennis Landi 22 Oct '03

22 Oct '03

Hello, Evidently, although Borland has ported Delphi to .Net, they have no plans to create a 64-bit native compiler. In fact, they have licensed the .Net compiler from MS. They seem to be getting out of the native compiler biz altogether. So, I bet you can guess my next question (Ok, well it was in the msg title). Does Gnu Pascal run on 64-bit Linux (SuSe or Redhat, etc.) or 64-bit Windows on either the Itanium 64 or AMD 64 chips? Thanks! -dennis

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gcc patching
by Oliver Aruväli 22 Oct '03

22 Oct '03

Hi, Its my first time to write to this list, but I hope I can describe my problem clearly. I am currently supposed to program "things" (university stuff) in pascal and the teachers recommended GNU-pascal. So I tried to install it on my linux machine (specs later) - no luck. Then I decided to build the gcc from scratch (first I used the compiling tutorial on the gnu-pascal.de) and when I reached a point in ./configure where I got an error: *** *** Detected GCC version 3.3.2. *** GPC 2.1 requires one of the following versions of the GCC sources to build: *** *** 2.8.1 *** 2.95.1 *** 2.95.2 *** 2.95.3-5 *** 2.95.3-6 *** 2.95.3-8 *** 2.95.3 *** 2.95.4 *** 2.95 *** 3.2.1 *** 3.2.2 *** 3.2.3 *** 3.3.1 *** 3.3 *** *** (You can try to patch GCC manually by typing a command like *** `patch -p1 < p/diffs/gcc-<version>.diff' and patching possible *** rejects by hand before you run configure again.) *** So I downloaded the .diff files from gcc ftp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7916747 Oct 22 22:14 gcc-3.2.2-3.2.3.diff -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 84108856 Oct 22 22:10 gcc-3.2.3-3.3.diff -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1222880 Oct 22 22:01 gcc-3.3.1-3.3.2.diff -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16818189 Oct 22 22:04 gcc-3.3-3.3.1.diff so here are four of them. And no the things that started to puzzle me: Currently my gcc is 3.2.2 and the gcc I am trying to compile is 3.3.2. The last supported gcc (by ./configure) is 3.3 so do I need to start applying the patches from the 3.2.2-3.2.3 and so on (all those 4 patches in logical order) or is it done somehow differently? Doesn't applying the patches break my current gcc as it is needed later with the same compiling? the ./configure line is ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,f77,objc,java, pascal --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit My machine is Linux serenity 2.4.20-8 #1 Thu Mar 13 16:42:56 EST 2003 i586 i586 i386 GNU/Linux (300mhz AMD K6-2) I am using gpc-20030830.tar.gz <http://www.gnu-pascal.de/alpha/gpc-20030830.tar.gz> (downloaded 22.10.03 from gnu-pascal.de) All ideas and links appreciated. Thank You in advance, Oliver

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GPC, MSYS and Paths
by Prof. A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) 22 Oct '03

22 Oct '03

On 17 October 2003, Frank wrote: [...] >program Bar; > >uses GPC, Pipe; > >var > Arguments: array [0 .. 2] of CString = ('foo', 'bar', '"bar"'); > Status: Integer = 0; > ErrMsg: TString = ''; > >begin > PWait (PExecute ('foo', PCStrings (@Arguments), ErrMsg, >PExecute_One), Status, 0); > WriteLn (Status, ' ', ErrMsg) >end. > >The output should be: > >bar >"bar" >0 I have just discovered that there is a problem under Mingw as well. I compiled and ran the programs under Mingw, and the output was this: bar "bar 0 Best regards, The Chief --------- Prof. Abimbola Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) Web: http://www.bigfoot.com/~african_chief/

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Update for Mac OS X
by Adriaan van Os 22 Oct '03

22 Oct '03

(repost) I have updated the sources, binaries and patches at <www.microbizz.nl/gpc.html> to use gpc-20030830 with gcc-3.3.2. Regards, Adriaan van Os

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--executable-file-name
by Prof. A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) 22 Oct '03

22 Oct '03

Hi Frank At present, "gpc foo.pas" produces "a.exe" on Windows, and perhaps just "a" or "a.out" on other platforms. If you want "foo.exe" or "foo" or whatever, you have to use "--executable-file-name" or use "-o foo[.extension]". Would it be sensible to have situations where "--executable-file-name" is supplied automatically? I am not wishing to create more work - but I have always wondered whether anyone ever actually wants "gpc foo.pas" to produce "a.[whatever]". This seems to be a relic from the past (and perhaps from gcc), and I wonder whether "--executable-file-name" should not actually be the standard behaviour (with people still being free to use "-o foo" if they want). I am not sure what you think about this, or how trivial or otherwise it would be to do this, even if it were thought desirable (and there might be reasons why it would not be good to go down this route). Finally, under BP and Delphi, "gpc foo.pas" will always produce "foo[.whatever]". Perhaps "--executable-file-name" should always be implied when in BP or Delphi mode? Of course it is a trivial thing to supply this at the command line, so if it would be too much trouble, then please junk the idea. Best regards, The Chief --------- Prof. Abimbola Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) Web: http://www.bigfoot.com/~african_chief/

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Update for Mac OS X
by Adriaan van Os 22 Oct '03

22 Oct '03

I have updated the sources, binaries and patches at <www.microbizz.nl/gpc.html> to use gpc-20030830 with gcc-3.3.2. Regards, Adriaan van Os

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Range Checking and Speed
by Kevan Hashemi 22 Oct '03

22 Oct '03

Dear GPC Users, The GPC manual says I can turn off range checking with {$R-} or with the command-line option --no-range-checking. I tried both, but the compiler gives me an error: unrecognised directive. I'm using GPC for MacOSX compiled with GCC 3.3. Can I turn off range checking? I translated a few thousand lines of Code Warrior Pascal into GPC Pascal. As I did so, I took the opportunity to make use of GPC's wonderful dynamic schemata types, so I removed all my ugly pointer arithmatic, which I had previously used to access dynamically allocated blocks of memory. My translated code runs at half the speed of my original code. I don't think it is the dynamic schemata, but I thought I would turn off the range checking just to see. What other default compiler options might slow down the code? Should I turn off debugging information? Yours, Kevan Hashemi

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Status of GPC?
by Gerrit P. Haase 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

Hallo, what is the status of GPC? Is it possible to build it with GCC 3.3.1? i would like to provide a precompiled version of GPC for Cygwin with the latest GCC. Are there still some patches which I need to apply (i.e. regarding the use on Cygwin)? Gerrit -- =^..^=

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gcc-3.3.2 & gpc-20030830
by Russell Whitaker 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

Hi gcc-3.3.2 was released today. with gpc-20030830: 1. varsam patch wasn't needed 2. "make bootstrap" I got to here: parse.y:100: unrecognized: %glr-parser parse.y:100: Skipping to next % parse.y:744: type clash (`' `itype') on default action parse.y:2861: type clash (`' `ttype') on default action make[2]: *** [../../gcc-3.3.2/gcc/p/parse.h] Error 1 make[1]: *** [stage2_build] Error 2 make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2 Should I try 3.3.2 with gpc-20030507 or wait for a patch/new release ? Russ

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