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From: dan@maccs.McMaster.ca (Dan Trottier)
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Subject: Bug in Sun Pascal 1.10 (Sun 4)
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Date: 1 Feb 89 07:20:51 GMT
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Well it's been 4 months since I reported a bug in the Sun Pascal 1.10
distribution and I haven't had a reply yet. Perhaps this will illicit a
response.

PROBLEM:

    If you try to declare a variable as a VARYING string of size 1 the
    compiler craps out with an internal error.

    Likewise if you declare a variable as VARYING string of size > 1 and
    then try to test against a string containing a single character the
    compiler craps out.

       Ex:       name : varying [1..8] of char ;

                 if name = 'a' then begin ... end
                 else ...

What I need to know is if this behaviour is normal and if not when will
Sun be sending me a BUG fix for this problem. Personnaly I don't care for
vendor added features (like varying) but if they are going to put
extensions in a language they better make sure they behave properly!

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Dan Trottier                                            dan@maccs.McMaster.CA
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