Robert Bosch GmbH Erbach, 30.11.95 IA1 / ESP4 Peter Kraemer-Eis

Postfach 1162 D-64701 Erbach Tel.: 06062/78-463 Germany Fax.: 06062/78-771

Dear Mr. Virtanen,

in our company, we have developed the software for a robot controler. Up to now, we used the National NS32000 family as target-cpu. Except of the hardware-near parts, our present software is written in NS-cross-pascal. The whole software for the robot-controler needs 2 MByte code and is split into about 200 files (modules). Now we are forced to replace the target-cpu by an intel-cpu (i486 or i586) and we hope, that most of our present software is portable to your GNU-Pascal.

For a test, we have installed 'Linux SuSE August 95', which includes your GPC version 1.1 (2.6.3). First results are quite promising, but there are some questions:

(1) Is there any reference manual (in addition to the GPC.GUIDE, which is too short, to work with it)? If yes, how can I get it?

(2) Is there any possibility, to avoid the case-sensitivity of the names of variables/procedures? Our present software is completely written in capital letters and therefore we have problems when debugging with GDB.

(3) Is there any restriction to the number of import/export of variables or procedures?

(4) How can I get the source-files of your GPC? I havn't found them on the CD-Roms of 'Linux SuSE August 95'.

Best regards, yours

Peter Kraemer-Eis