On Friday 26 April 2013 12:01:34 pm Jonas Maebe wrote:
Can anyone here offer some insights regarding the standard conformance of the test program submitted at http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=24318 ? (range.p)
Both FPC and GPC cause the program to abort with a range check error, while the submitter is of the opinion that the for-loop should merely short-circuit and never executed instead.
This program is clearly how I expect pascal to work. If the initial value is already past the final value, it should just do nothing.
I can't speak directly to the standards, but if the require this to be a range error, the standards clearly broke many of my pascal programs.
I also verified that a very old version of gcp (2.95.3) did not cause a range error on this kind of construct.
--Phil