CBFalconer wrote:
Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Yes, I did. However, are we allowed to distribute it at all? What is the copyright status of the document?
The following was in the original:
=========== This online copy of the Extended Pascal standard is provided only as an aid to standardization. In the case of differences between this online version and the printed version, the printed version takes precedence.
Do not modify this document. Do not include this document in another software product. You may print this document for personal use only. Do not sell this document. ===========
I have not modified it. I take the above as permission to promulgate it.
I'm not sure. I think the default in copyright is that most things are not allowed unless stated otherwise.
I'll wait for a statement from Peter who owns the server. If he says it's ok, I'll put it up ...
The standard says "It shall be an error ....".
: 3.2 Error : : A violation by a program of the requirements of this International Standard : that a processor is permitted to leave undetected.
;-)
In another newsgroup there was discussion of an algorithm (comp.programming) and I generated the following. I left the "abs" out of the hash procedure, and things failed. The system was returning negative values used as indices, and I consider it a minor miracle that there were no spectacular crashes.
Well, it segfaults for me when entering negative values without the abs, if that relieves you. As for spectacular, you won't hang the system so easily in a protected environment than under plain Dos (though perhaps it's still possible under DJGPP more easily than on other systems).
This should never have happened.
I agree. The problem is just that there are a number of urgent bugs (even though we've fixed many of them by now), and our time is finite, and people want to see a new release. We can't do all at once ...
Frank