Re: GPC Exit Bug

Hallo Bernhard, hello everybody!

According to Bernhard Tschirren:

Function ThisIsABug : Integer;
    Begin
        ThisIsABug := 0;
        Exit;

        ThisIsABug := 100;
    End;

Begin
    WriteLn(ThisIsABug);
End.

[...]

The output is not 0 as expected! It not even 100!!! Looking at the ASM produced, we can see its one of those nasties left behind by C (RETURN).

Indeed!

It will be fixed in the next release (perhaps this evening).

Im using GPC 2.0 (alpha 9704?? - Im not sure about the ??, but it might be 20) with DJGPP (2.01).

It holds for any version of GPC which understands `Exit'.

Thank you (EVERYBODY) for creating the greatest development platform in the world!!

Thank you! (-: Be invited to join us in improving GPC.

Thanks for reporting the bug! Such feedback is very important - for testing GPC as well as for motivating us to go on. :-)

Tschuess

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 [970510] - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [970125]