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Hello, Extended Pascal experts!

We need your help to increase the compliance of the GNU Pascal compiler (GPC) to the ISO-10206 Extended Pascal standard.

1) We need a test suite to check in how far GNU Pascal does comply to the EP standard. (Our aim is 100%.) Does anyone know where to get such a thing?

2) The standard says that not only files, but also other Pascal entities may be bound to external entities, but the effect of such a binding is "implementation dependent". How do other implementations handle this?

(* In case you don't know: GNU Pascal is a portable 32-bit Pascal compiler. It is Free Software according to the GNU General Public License. The current beta version (gpc-971001) supports most of ISO-10206 Extended Pascal as well as most of Borland Pascal 7.0. For more information, see our WWW pages, http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/. *)

Thanks in advance,

Peter

Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [971005] maintainer GNU Pascal [971001] - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [971005]