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Article #2314Re: Garden's Point Modula-2
From: Ian Moor
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1991 13:37
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1991 13:37
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In article <1991Jun7.114900.7574@hubcap.clemson.edu> untch@hubcap.clemson.edu (Roland Untch) writes:
>> There is a problem generating C for things that have no close equivalents,
>> such as nested procedures, something like
>> (. . . example deleted . . .)
>> cannot easily be mapped to C. Gardens Point seems to produce incorrect C
>> for something like this.
> Do you know for a fact that Garden's Point Modula-2 produces
>incorrect C?
More details: this was the SPARC version of Garden's Point, which
we had for evaluation from their UK agent RTA before easter. The C output
from a program like the example I quoted caused the C compiler to complain
about an illegal redeclaration of one the procedures. The procedure was
called before definition in the C.
--
Ian W Moor
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!iwm From: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Garden's Point Modula-2 Message-ID: <IWM.91Jun8143717@swan.doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: 8 Jun 91 13:37:17 GMT References: <IWM.91Jun6140721@swan.doc.ic.ac.uk> <1991Jun7.114900.7574@hubcap.clemson.edu> Organization: Department of Confusion, Imperial College, London UK Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: swan.doc.ic.ac.uk In-Reply-To: untch@hubcap.clemson.edu's message of 7 Jun 91 11:49:00 GMT