I'm in the process of moving some pascal code from an old sun compiler to gpc, and encountered a problem with rewrite. Here's a little program that illustrates it:

Program Main(input,output); Var assembly : text; begin rewrite(assembly,'output.file'); writeln(assembly,'Hello'); writeln(assembly,'Goodbye...'); end.

Ths compiles ok, but when I run it, I get the error message

?GPC runtime error: (gpc-rts) Internal file namei wrong (#700)

when the rewrite is executed.

We appear to have version 2.7.2.1 of gpc installed, and I'm running it on a Sun UltraSPARC (Solaris 2.5).

I'd be grateful if someone could tell me whether this is a known bug, and if it is, whether it's fixed in a later version of gpc.

Please reply directly to me at jcbeatty@uwaterloo.ca - I'm not yet a member of the gpc mailing list.

Thanks immensely.

regards, john beatty

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