Node:Top, Next:

GPC 2.1 News

There's a number of new or changed features which are listed in the following sections. Features without further description refer to new routines or options.

Information about GPC as well as GPC itself for download can be found on the GPC home page.

This list is part of GNU Pascal. Copyright (C) 1997-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.


Node:News - General Changes And Possible Incompatibilies with Previous Versions, Next:, Previous:Top, Up:Top

General Changes And Possible Incompatibilies with Previous Versions

This release of GPC has been cleaned up substantially. Consequently, a few old and obsolete features have been dropped or replaced by cleaner, more flexible or otherwise more useful ones. This might lead to minor problems with old programs, but we suppose they're very rare (many programmers might not even know about the old features) and easy to overcome. The most important ones are listed here, the rest of them is contained in the following sections and marked with (@).


Node:News - Command Line Options and Compiler Directives, Next:, Previous:News - General Changes And Possible Incompatibilies with Previous Versions, Up:Top

Command Line Options and Compiler Directives


Node:News - Compiler and RTS Built-in Declarations, Next:, Previous:News - Command Line Options and Compiler Directives, Up:Top

Compiler and RTS Built-in Declarations

Some of the following declarations are built into the compiler, others are declared in the GPC module.


Node:News - Units, Next:, Previous:News - Compiler and RTS Built-in Declarations, Up:Top

GPC Units

A few of the units (in particular: CRT, GMP and RegEx) require libraries. The sources of the libraries, with small patches where necessary, as well as binaries for i586-pc-linux-gnu, i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1, m68k-linux, sparc-sun-solaris2, i386-pc-go32, i386-pc-cygwin32 and i386-pc-mingw32 are available from

http://www.gnu-pascal.de/libs/


Node:News - GPC Manual, Next:, Previous:News - Units, Up:Top

GPC Manual


Node:News - Demo Programs, Next:, Previous:News - GPC Manual, Up:Top

Demo Programs


Node:News - Utilities, Next:, Previous:News - Demo Programs, Up:Top

Utilities


Node:News - Test Suite, Next:, Previous:News - Utilities, Up:Top

Test Suite

The Test Suite is used to verify that all features of GPC work as expected and to reproduce bugs reported. Test programs for bugs found by users and for new features are constantly added. The test suite is part of source, not binary, GPC distributions, and it is available separately for download.


Node:Legend, Previous:News - Test Suite, Up:Top

Legend

(@): minor backward-incompatibility
(B): BP compatibility
(D): Delphi compatibility
(G): GPC compatibility :-)

Have fun,

The GNU Pascal Development Team