From: Peter Gerwinski <peter AT agnes DOT dida DOT physik DOT uni-essen DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Prehistorical GPC in DJGPP
Date: 5 Apr 1998 23:07:00 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen
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While browsing through the DJGPP `zip' archives I encountered
a prehistorical version (gpc-1.1.2, corresponding to gcc-2.6.3)
of the GNU Pascal Compiler (GPC).  In `readme.1st' it is
mentioned as "gpt112b - GNU Pascal with Turbo Pascal Extensions"
which is somehow misleading since the official version gpc-2.0
supports more Turbo Pascal extensions than gpt-1.1.2.

Furthermore, the description in `gp[ct]112b.txt' 

  GPC, the GNU Pascal Compiler, version 1.1. It conforms to the ISO7185
  (unextended) and ISO10206 (extended) Pascal language definition. [...]

is incorrect since even current versions of GPC are not (yet;-)
fully compliant to ISO-10206.

I recommend to remove `gpc112' and `gpt112' from the distribution
or at least mention in `readme.1st' that those are old versions
obsoleted by gpc-2.0.

OTOH, I could also provide an alpha version of GPC (with yet even
more Turbo Pascal - and other - extensions;-) in the near future.
What is the naming convention for such a thing and where can I
upload it?

Greetings,

    Peter
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    Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
Maintainer GNU Pascal - http://home.pages.de/~GNU-Pascal/ - 1 Oct 1997
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