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From: terrell@druhi.ATT.COM (Eric Terrell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: OSS Pascal Linker Problems
Message-ID: <3428@druhi.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 Aug 88 14:39:55 GMT
Reply-To: terrell@druhi.UUCP (TerrellE)
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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About linker problems with O.S.S. Personal Pascal:

I get the "bssanf" error message when I forget to place the
{$M+} directive in the source text of a library. 

I have version 2.??.


One bug that I've noticed:  if you link with several libraries, when the
linker tries to link with the PASLIB library, it will give an error message
like "Cannot link PAS".  When I shortened the names of my libraries, it
managed to link successfully.  It looks like the names of all libraries
(user-defined, PASGEM, PASLIB) are stored in a short fixed-length
string.  When the user specifies too many filenames, the list of filenames
is longer than the length of the string, and is effectively truncated...

I think that the most serious bugs with Personal Pascal involve the editor.
I almost never get through a long session without having the editor crash on me
at least once.

Except for the problems with the editor, I consider the Personal Pascal system
to be of very high quality.

Eric Terrell