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From: chip@hpclisp.HP.COM (Chip Chapin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP Pascal speaks! [long]
Message-ID: <1340078@hpclisp.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 89 21:16:22 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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There are two amendments I'd like to make to the original posting:

>/ chip@hpclisp.HP.COM (Chip Chapin) /  7:42 pm  Oct 13, 1989 /
>    However, these is a bug in the 300 compiler, I [Jim B.] will be fixing this
>    month where the compiler lower-case's the alias.  This makes it hard
>    to access LINES and COLS from the curses library.  Opps :-)

I should have pointed out that $alias on the s800 has the *same*
property.  In fact, the case-insensitivity is a bona-fide "feature" 
rather than a bug.  Clearly, however, a user also needs a way to make
the external name case-sensitive, and that is why, on the s800, the
default behavior may be overridden using the $LITERAL_ALIAS option.

The "bug fix" that Jim refers to for the s300 is not to change the
behavior of $alias, but to add the $literal_alias option, a la the s800.


And with respect to large executables I said:

>I consider the arrival of shared libraries in the 7.0 release on both
>systems to be the rest of the solution to this particular problem.

I must have been asleep when I wrote that.  Shared libraries are most
emphatically *NOT* in the 7.0 HP-UX release.  "They may be in a future 
release" :-) :-)

Chip