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From: Rick Engebretson
Subject: [GPC]: daily digest (#613)
Date: 29 Jan 2005, 04:42:00

Tom Schneider wrote:

>
>gpc 20040516, based on gcc-3.3.3
>fails (says empty files are not eof after reset).
>
>but the older
>
>GNU Pascal version 2.1 (20020510), based on gcc-2.95.2 19991024 (release).
>works! (says empty files are eof after reset)
>
>Thus the behavior of GPC has changed between these two.
>
>>From my viewpoint this is an extremly serious bug because so many of
>my programs use the eof test.  What's happening is that I'm slowly
>updating programs and so I didn't notice it until now.  I spent all
>night the other day trying to figure a way to replace eof with
>something that worked (using eof but is still standard) but failed. 
>If I have to use the p2c converter to work with my programs, I will be
>forced to abandon GPC, just as I was converting all programs to
>function smoothly with it ...  :-(  This is now true for one program.
>
>I hope that this can be solved!
>
>Regards,
>
>Tom
>
> 
>
I think going to p2c will isolate your fine work.

http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/software.html

Many of the features turbo pascal introduced, that "vanilla" pascal 
lacked, are part of Ada95 and also include object types. Conformant 
arrays are a GPC addition to pascal. Your important work invites these 
updates.

Rick.

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