I just noticed that GPC ignores trailing spaces when comparing strings with the usual operators ("=" and so on). I see that this seems to be required by the standard, and that there are othere operators ("eq" or such) for exact comparisions. However, I find this behaviour quite inconsistent and annoying (took me quite some time to figure out why s='' was true when s wasn't empty...)-:, and it would cause much trouble when porting BP programs. When using "--borland-pascal", GPC says "warning: ISO 7185 Pascal does not define string functions".

So, would it be possible to make "=" and so on work as exact comparisons (at least in the "--borland-pascal" mode, and preferably also with a separate switch)?

Simple test program: ;-)

program x; begin writeln(''=' ') end.

Frank

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