According to Ken Linder:

I am not too sure if I am experiencing brain damage or what... Since I downloaded the binary Linux GPC file gpc-970714_i586-linux.tar and unzipped it, I have not been able to compile ANY pascal code.:-(

OS: Linux 2.0.27 GCC: 2.7.2.1

That sounds rather strange. As you can imagine, this very same compiler worked fine here.

What I get when I try to compile and pascal source... /tmp/cca00363.i:1: numeric constant with no digits /tmp/cca00363.i:1: numeric constant with no digits /tmp/cca00363.i:1: invalid #line etc... etc... etc...

Looks like a problem with the preprocessor. Can you please retry with

gpc -v <other options> foo.pas -o foo ^^ and post the result here?

This wouldn't be because I am using 486 hardware would it?

I cannot imagine that. GCC and GPC don't have true Pentium optimization (yet;). AFAIK, the code is essentially optimized for the i486 with a few optimizations switched off that would reduce performance on a Pentium (not sure about that).

Later,

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 [970714] - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [970125]