Subject: Re: gnu pascal unit problem Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: Dxx3Bv.2G5@bercos.de Organization: Universitaet Essen, Germany Reply-To: peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de Distribution:

Helge Kruse (hk@bercos.de) wrote:

I downloaded the version 1.2-2.7.2 of gpc and tried a unit sample. But the code won't work. It's so small, that Id like to post the code here:

program p1; (* This program does NOT work correctly with GPC 2.7.2 *) (* compiled with 'gpc --automake p1.pas' the a.out will *) (* be compiled. But the function u1 in the unit u1 *) (* does not prints the parameter. *) (* Renaming the unit, so that unit/function name differ *) (* gives no success. *)

The function u1 accepts a formal parameter of type "String". Other than in Borland Pascal, this does not default to a String of maximum length 255 but stands for a String Schema type which is something more complicated.

Indeed, you discovered a bug. Thank you for the report.

To work around, use Strings of known maximum length instead of generic String Schemas, i.e.

Type WrkString = String ( 80 );

Function u1 ( S: WrkString ): whatever;

(Also posted to the GNU Pascal mailing list.)

Peter

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