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From: pr@cl.cam.ac.uk (Peter Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3
Subject: Compiler confusion between TEXT and ARRAY OF CHAR
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.094555.8824@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 23 Jan 91 09:45:55 GMT
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The following program:

| MODULE Main;
| 
| PROCEDURE p (a: ARRAY OF CHAR) =
| BEGIN END p;
| 
| BEGIN
|     p ("a");
| 
| END Main.

causes the DEC SRC Modula-3 compiler (version 1.5, MIPS/Ultrix system)
to fail with:

| runtime error: ASSERT failed