The GPC Test Suite in section 11.7 of the GNU Pascal Manual gives me 29 failed tests. This is 1.6% of the total of about 1800 tests; except for the 29 failures, the other tests all give 'OK'.
I would like your opinion whether I should simply ignore the 29 failures. Or do you want me to e-mail the titles of the 29 failed test to you?
My operating system is SUSE Linux 7.1 (Professional). The computer is a 450 Mc/s Windows machine. There are two hard discs: One is completely devoted to Linux, and the other handles all of Windows. There does not seem to be any interference between the two discs.
In trying out GPC, I have so far completely failed to get an answer to the GPC demo-program 'pi.pas'. All pi.pas gives me is an error message to say that linking was not possible. I presume that the answer should have been 3.14159...
I desperately need a decent Pascal compiler. and I still have not given up hope that GPC yet be successful.
My name is Arvid Herzenberg. My e-mail address is arvid.herzenberg@yale.edu
I am looking forward to a reply from you.
arvid.herzenberg wrote:
The GPC Test Suite in section 11.7 of the GNU Pascal Manual gives me 29 failed tests. This is 1.6% of the total of about 1800 tests; except for the 29 failures, the other tests all give 'OK'.
I would like your opinion whether I should simply ignore the 29 failures. Or do you want me to e-mail the titles of the 29 failed test to you?
The latter, as well as the error messages, i.e., the complete output from running the test suite (not in the long form, and overly long list of errors for a single program, if any, trimmed).
In trying out GPC, I have so far completely failed to get an answer to the GPC demo-program 'pi.pas'. All pi.pas gives me is an error message to say that linking was not possible. I presume that the answer should have been 3.14159...
It uses the GMP library to compute pi to arbitrary many digits. If you haven't installed it yet, it won't work (though I'm wondering why the error occurs at link time, and not at compile time already). There must be /usr/include/gmp.h and /usr/lib/libgmp.a (or .so*) for it to work.
Frank
In article 000401c15d9f$1354eac0$e1e78482@Arvid.cis.yale.edu, arvid.herzenberg arvid.herzenberg@yale.edu writes
The GPC Test Suite in section 11.7 of the GNU Pascal Manual gives me 29 failed tests. This is 1.6% of the total of about 1800 tests; except for the 29 failures, the other tests all give 'OK'.
I would like your opinion whether I should simply ignore the 29 failures. Or do you want me to e-mail the titles of the 29 failed test to you?
In trying out GPC, I have so far completely failed to get an answer to the GPC demo-program 'pi.pas'. All pi.pas gives me is an error message to say that linking was not possible. I presume that the answer should have been 3.14159...
I desperately need a decent Pascal compiler. and I still have not given up hope that GPC yet be successful.
Keep trying. The first thing to do is to tell us what version of gpc you are using (gpc -v will tell you if you don't know).
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