Wood David wrote:
We've ported quite a lot of DEC Pascal to GPC without major problems. Certainly GPC2.1 hasn't given us problems with segfaults or internal errors on both i386 or Alpha platforms. We have had to do quite a lot of manual code conversions though. Areas which spring to mind that needed changing in our code was:
GPC doesn't read enumerated types from files;
This was once discussed, but hasn't been pursued further yet, since there seemed to be little interest. If there's now, it should be possible to do with moderate effort ...
GPC doesn't support the :=ZERO assignment; GPC doesn't use file i/o and read qualifiers, especially ERROR:= CONTINUE; VARYING [] OF CHAR must be replaced by STRING(); VMS runtime library functions aren't available (obviously!). I can't do key detection as I do under VMS INHERIT and ENVIRONMENT become INTERFACE/IMPLEMENTATION and USES Remove [GLOBAL] and [EXTERNAL] [STATIC] becomes static No D+0 etc. for double precision exponents
Some of these extensions I don't know at all, and some ... well, quite honestly, I don't like the syntax, e.g. `[EXTERNAL]'!? In this case I admit I find Borland's way more reasonable to make it a directive `external', syntactically like `forward' ...
The only compiler bug - global string definitions in modules don't always work yet (I don't think?)
That's right. I hope I can fix this sometime ...
Frank