Re: --language=Pascal

Adriaan van Os wrote:

The question rises whether Pascal is written with an uppercase "p" or not

[G4:~/gnu/testgpc/adriaan] adriaan% gpc -c --language=Pascal hello.pas [G4:~/gnu/testgpc/adriaan] adriaan% gpc -c --language=pascal hello.pas gpc: language pascal not recognized

So, gpc expects an uppercase "p". On the other hand:

• ada, fortran and c are written in all lowercase (see the man pages

for gcc)

• gdb writes Pascal lowercase
• gp writes "--pascal=OPTION" lowercase.

Because of this, it came to a surprise to me that --language=pascal didn't work (and it took me some time to find out that --language=Pascal did).

Well, since Pascal is a proper name, not an acronym, the uppercase letter is actually correct. (The same would be true for Ada, but that's not our business.)

So I think gdb and gp are wrong. I'll change gp (to accept both ways).

Frank