Hi, developers! I have successfully downloaded and compiled GPC-980511 for Linux. There still are two problems with the makefile: 1. Subdirectory /p in the gcc source directory may not be a symlink (make finds out the real directory and complains about missing `../configure') - I remember I've seen this problem reported together with a patch on the list. 2. Compiling the RTL for the first time fails because `gpc' is not found (it is still called `xgpc' at the moment) However I was unable to install RHIDE for Linux (rpm2tgz from Slackware 3.4 distribution fails with the rpm package) so I used DJGPP version to examine the following bugs: 1. GPC preprocessor outputs too many empty lines when removing text between {$IFDEF} ... {$ENDIF}. A sample program: {1} program LineNumberBug; {2} {3} {$IFDEF NotDefined} {4} This line is not compiled {5} {$ENDIF} {6} {7} begin {8} ! { Generate syntax error on line 8 } {9} end. ...>gpc main.pas main.pas: In function `program_Linenumberbug': main.pas:11: parse error before `!' ^^ should be 8 2. Procedural variables are always passed by value. program ProcBug; type TProc = procedure; procedure NoBug(X: TProc); begin { X is passed by value as it should be } end; procedure Bug(var X: TProc); begin { X is passed by value here too! } { If I tried to modify X, I would corrupt code of some procedure } end; var Tmp: TProc; begin NoBug(Tmp); { These two calls in .S file are identical } Bug(Tmp); end. 3. (I think this one is not new) `--automake' does pass all required .o files to the linker if it didn't need to recompile the sources. (Windows 95 crashed as usual and I had to retype everything from scratch. I should once again try to install RHIDE for Linux...) Yours, -- Marius Gedminas "A Hacker is any person who derives E-mail: mgedmin@pub.osf.lt joy from discovering ways to WWW: http://www-public.osf.lt/~mgedmin/ circumvent limitations." rab'86