Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 11:22:39 -0700 From: Maurice Lombardi Maurice.Lombardi@ujf-grenoble.fr To: laa12@keele.ac.uk Cc: gpc@hut.fi Subject: Re: New GNU Pascal alpha gpc-980511
Dr A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) a ecrit:
all my test programs and the graphics program compile and execute, except of course for the problem of bpString in the BPcompat package.
What is this problem? I am working on v2.0 of bpcompat, and I would like to know of any problems.
It is in the following redefinition of string in gpctypes.pas:
{$ifdef _Borland_Pascal_} String = bpString; {$endif _Borland_Pascal_}
then any instruction var s:String[25]; becomes illegal.
Ah! Yes, I had noticed that. :-(. It seems that redefining "String" is not a very good idea. I will probably remove that line from the next release. By the way, GPCTYPES.PAS has been merged into SYSTEM.PAS, and the "BinFile" stuff has been moved from SYSTEM.PAS into a new unit.
I hope to release a version of bpCompat 2.0, which takes into account all the recent developments in GPC, in about 2 weeks time. So, please report any problem with bpcompat so that I can have a look at it. Version 2.0 will hopefully be far more compatible with BP than the earlier versions.
Best regards, The Chief -------- Dr. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) Email: laa12@keele.ac.uk Homepage: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/African_Chief/ Author of: Chief's Installer Pro 4.25 for Win16 and Win32: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win3/install/chief425.zip