Hallo, Frank; hello, everybody!

According to Frank Heckenbach:

The output of a compiler program is not redirectable (neither as stdout, nor stderr).

Hmmm ... I am redirecting stderr all the time ... what OS are you using? With DJGPP and the BPcompat package, redirection is turned off when DirectVideo is `true'. (And redirection is not easy with DJGPP anyway.) It works fine on my Linux box.

Writeln('a','':5,'b'); I think it should write "a b", but it just writes "ab".

Okay. I am adding it to my bug list. Thanks.

My standard way for "variable size arrays" in BP doesn't work in gpc:

PROGRAM t;

CONST MaxVar=$FFF0;

TYPE X=Integer;

XArray=ARRAY[1..MaxVar DIV SizeOf(X)] OF X; {}

BEGIN END.

[...]

Okay. I am adding it to my bug list. Thanks. :-)

Workaround: GPC has no problems to deal with structures above 65520 bytes. (It has a 4GB limit instead.) So you can just write:

Const MaxVar = 1000000; (* large random number *)

Type X = Integer; XArray = array [ 1..MaxVar ] of X;

[...]

Okay. I am ... etc. :-)

(I could provide all the register values if necessary.)

That's not necessary. I have the example program, so I will be able to reproduce the bug. (I hope at least.)

Also thanks for the detailed description in which situations the bug occurs. :-)

(See above.:-)

Last but not least: Is there anything like TP's Exit (return from current procedure/function)? I couldn't find it in the docs.

Return.

But I am planning to support `Exit' as an alternative to it.

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]