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From: rs4u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LightSpeed Pascal flakiness
Message-ID: <8VvE1Yy00V4MRQ00fK@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 88 17:37:40 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
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In-Reply-To: <4561@watdragon.waterloo.edu>



Indeed, the construct you descibe was known to cause code problems in 
Lightspeed Pascal 1.0.

As for your FOR loop: are you using the StringOf function? The StringOf 
supplied with 1.0 trashed registers, which tended to screw up most looping 
constructs.

The current version is 1.11. There is a patch available, downloadable from 
comp.binaries.mac or from info-mac on SUMEX, which should help quite a bit. It 
fixes the CG and StringOf bug, among other things.

The new version also fixes compatibility problems with new hardware and 
software configurations.

		--Rich