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From: hd7q@hudson.acc.virginia.edu (das himadri)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Pascal compilers for MS DOS systems
Message-ID: <1723@hudson.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: 10 Jul 89 17:10:21 GMT
Reply-To: hd7q@hudson.acc.Virginia.EDU (das himadri)
Organization: University of Virginia, Charlottesville
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I am trying to port Pascal code which compiles with a standard Pascal
compiler on a Prime 9955 machine to a PC running MS DOS. The code
is fairly big, about 300 kbytes and involves procedures using other
procedures as parameters. I tried Turbo Pascal 5.0 for which the code
had to be broken up into units of less than 64 kbytes. I am having
problems while trying to use in one unit a procedure available in another
unit when calling this procedure involves passing a complex data type
between the two procedures. To elaborate a bit further, there is no
problem if a character or integer or real is being passed between
two units but if a string or a pointer to a record or an array of pointers
to records needs to be passed between the two units then it doesn't
work but gives a type mismatch error during compilation. This type
mismatch refers to the complex data structure that needs to be passed
between the two units even though they have been declared in both units.
Has anybody had similar problems when dealing with large code in
Turbo Pascal? Is there a way around this? How about other Pascal
compilers for MS DOS systems which are closer to standard Pascal
and can handle the 64 Kbyte limit as well as allow procedures to
take other procedures as parameters?
Any information regarding other Pascal compilers and their availability
would be greatly appreciated. Would also welcome suggestions about
how to use Turbo Pascal for what I trying to do.
                                                       Thanks!

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