pointer forward decl bug

17 Apr 2002

      Hai,

after porting a few thousand lines I think I spotted the next bug.

take this simple program:

    program err;

    type
       pword = ^word;
       word  =  boolean;

    var
       pw    : pword;

    begin
       new(pw);
       pw^ := true;
    end.

This is rejected by gpc with:

    err.pas: In main program:
    err.pas:12: incompatible types in assignment

But if I swap the order of the pword and word type decl's all's swell.
Ofcourse using woord (dutch for word) instead of word solves it too.

-- 
groetjes, carel

pointer forward decl bug

Carel Fellinger