Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
have vanished from the Internet. We have previously considered gpc, but =
its limited support for Extended Pascal has stopped us.
Out of curiosity: what was the deal breaking feature?
Hi Waldek,
It was about a decade ago, and I don’t remember the details of the problems. If I look at the missing bits now: "The Extended Pascal features still missing from GPC are qualified module import, protected module export variables, set types with variable bounds, structured value initializers and expressions as subrange lower bounds” [1], I don’t see any deficiencies that couldn’t be worked around. According to my own notes [2] it may have been this, but also the use of some non-standard Prospero extensions or API (OO? Memory mapped files? w32 GUI support? Serial bus? Printing? Plotting?). Back then the objective was not to replace Prospero but to find a way to mix languages, and gpc+gcc made it possible to link object files into the same executable. Before trying to make our massive code base compatible with gpc, I looked for a different way to do that. When I found one that allowed us to continue to use Prospero, which had served us well over many years, I stopped using gpc.
Best regards,
Bastiaan.