Hello, everybody!

I was asked for binaries of the GPC alpha version because some people (including myself :-) had trouble to compile it, especially on non-UNIX systems.

I am now uploading binaries of the current alpha GPC for Linux (elf) and for DOS (DJGPP) to ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/alpha/.

The "current alpha GPC" means of course gpc-970219, not the obsolete and buggy gpc-970215. ;-)

Changes from gpc-970215 to gpc-970219:

* Everything which treads `Char' as an ordinal type (e.g. `ord', `min', `succ', `case') works again. (It was broken in gpc-970215.)

* Initialized `Char' variables work again; `array of char' variables now can be initialized with a String value. :)

* Chars above chr ( 127 ) did not work in some situations, e.g. as `case' labels. Now they do.

* According to Extended Pascal, you can assign String constants to Chars. The empty String yields a space character.

That's it for the moment.

Yours,

Peter

Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [970201] maintainer GNU Pascal - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [970125]