| Title: | DEC Pascal Bug Reports |
| Notice: | New kit announcement in TURRIS::Pascal conference |
| Moderator: | TLE::GARRISON |
| Created: | Wed Sep 09 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Fri May 30 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 838 |
| Total number of notes: | 3659 |
The following program gets an internal error on VAX, and an
assertion with a GEM-based compiler. If you use a VARYING
instead of a STRING, it works. Also, on VAX, if you only have
1 parameter instead of 2, it works. With a GEM-based compiler,
it gets an assertion even with 1 parameter.
-John
program foo(output);
type
rec_a = record
s : string(16);
end;
procedure test(p : rec_a := [otherwise zero];
q : rec_a := [otherwise zero]);
begin
writeln(p.s,q.s);
end;
begin
test;
end.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 833.1 | TLE::REAGAN | All of this chaos makes perfect sense | Wed May 21 1997 16:25 | 14 | |
This is an invalid program. We made the decision back when we
added schema that we wouldn't handle default parameter values for
run-time-sized types. If you try something like
p : rec_a := zero
you already get an error message. I've fixed the compiler to also
give a message for [otherwise zero].
Yes, in theory, we certainly could support these concepts, but not
this close to the next release and not without some reasonable
requests from customers.
-John
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