Peter wrote
sqr(BTW), right now I am porting a project of 150000 lines from BP to GPC - not by just recompiling, but it makes progress as expected.
Gee! What is it about? 150000 pascal source code?
Also, the rhide url and the old GPC info moping about the lack of borland pascal likewise IDE make me ask this question: what's better than emacs, using pascal mode, for writting pascal? Don't you think Borland ide is just ugly, unusable, unefficient, vomitting? Never understood why you made such a mess about it.
Also, the assign example given by rainer seems not to be the better one. When I started using GPC, it was not provided, but one could find a (working) substitutes given in the info. IMHO, the actual problem of using GPC for a user who is not maintening and trakcing the GPC bugs is that he is so sure all his problem are coming from the compiler and not from himself or his debugger! AFAIK, there is no one bug of mine I haven't made GPC responsible for it. It eventually appears that it is never GPC but either gdb or the user who is wrong, but one can't go through his human nature (my experience learnt me GPC is in fact much more reliable that one could expect from a beta version, so with time the effect is dissipating slowly).
F.P.L