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From: djm@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
Subject: Turbo Pascal
Message-ID: <248@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 18:10:24 EST
Article-I.D.: nmtvax.248
Posted: Wed Jan 30 18:10:24 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 6-Feb-85 03:34:54 EST
Reply-To: djm@nmtvax.UUCP (Dieter Muller)
Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro
Lines: 28
Keywords: Bugs, semi-colon, I/O buffering
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Summary: 

TURBO PASCAL BUGS

	I have found a couple of bugs in Turbo Pascal on an IBM PC-clone running
MS-DOS.  I define these as bugs, since the same code works on the campus
DEC-20 (not a good standard, I know, but it's what I have to work with).
The copy of Turbo is roughly 6-7 months old, so these things may have been
fixed by now.

	1) If a ';' is incorrectly places before a keyword, the compiler will
		not complain.  However, when that section of code is executed,
		a memory error is generated and a system halt is performed.  This
		requires a re-boot.

		Example :      if condition then
					     begin
						   statement1;
						   statement2;
						 end;				<-- explodes here when run
					   another_statement;
	2) If you read from the console a character at a time, each character
		must be separated by a carriage return.  I am under the impression
		that either a) data is buffered one line at a time, or b) data would
		be physically read one character at a time.  (My Pascal references
		aren't handily available as to which is standard, but C/R between
		each sounds silly to me).

		Dieter Muller
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