----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank D. Engel, Jr." fde101@yahoo.com To: gpc@gnu.de Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 3:17 PM Subject: MacOS X Update Request due to strange problem
I am having some wierd problems with bus errors and seg faults under MacOS X. I am using the currently available release (linked from the GPC binary downloads area), and am wondering when an update will be made available, hoping that some of these problems have been (or will be) fixed.
The strange thing is that sometimes the problem can be fixed by sticking extra WRITELNs in between various lines of code. So for example, if I am having trouble and think the following code is at fault:
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I have had similar problems with Borland Pascal. What I usually do is either put in extra blank lines or comments before the line where the problem occurs. The problem is not consistent and I have never been able to detect a pattern. The comments that I use are usually in the form of /*************************/