Problem compiling with gpc and "Uses Crt" statement in crtc.c

[Bruce Mahfood]

Will do.  Thanks Dave.

On 6/7/07, Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com> wrote:
> On 07 June 2007 21:41, Bruce Mahfood wrote:
>
> > Hey thanks.  I recognised that the problem was in a system level C
> > file, when I was trying to compile a Pascal file.  The thing is that
> > gpc is a Pascal compiler that is linked against the gcc backend.
>
>   Heh, yes, I know.  I'm the maintainer of the cygwin gcc packages.
>
> >  The
> > GNU Pascal page
> > (http://directory.fsf.org/devel/prog/pascal/GNUPascal.html) states
> > that it implements ISO Pascal, Borland Pascal 7.0, and parts of other
> > Pascal standards or de-facto standards.
>
>   We used to have a gpc build and then it got dropped and when I took over gcc
> maintainership I threw together a newer version.  It's entirely possible I did
> something wrong, although it passes most of the gpc testsuite:
>
>                 === gpc tests ===
>
> Running target any
> Running testsuite ...
>
> UNSUPPORTED: agettext2test.pas
> UNSUPPORTED: aregextest.pas
> FAIL: aturbo3test.pas
> FAIL: avo7.pas
> FAIL: crttest.pas
> FAIL: dialec3.pas
> FAIL: dialec5.pas
> FAIL: dialec6.pas
> FAIL: dialec7.pas
> FAIL: fjf1021d.pas
> FAIL: fjf1021h.pas
> FAIL: fjf1021i.pas
> FAIL: fjf1021j.pas
> FAIL: fjf1021k.pas
> FAIL: fjf1042b.pas
> FAIL: fjf1042c.pas
> UNSUPPORTED: fjf165a.pas
> FAIL: fjf186.pas
> UNSUPPORTED: gmptest.pas
> UNSUPPORTED: longr2.pas
> FAIL: mir047h.pas
>
>                 === gpc Summary ===
>
> # of tests                4946
> # of expected passes      4925
> # of unexpected failures  16
> # of unsupported tests    5
>
>
> > I tried removing the call to Use Crt, and have other errors.  I am
> > going to ask my question on the GNU-Pascal mailing list, since you do
> > not seem to feel that this is a Cygwin issue, but a) since gpc speaks
> > Borland, I would assume that it is not being messed up with the Uses
> > Crt, and b) since gpc comes as a part of the Cygwin install, and since
> > I installed it using the Cygwin Setup executable, I would think that
> > there should be no problem with it finding the correct object file,
> > but in this case it didn't.  Why would gpc start a gcc compile of the
> > crtc.c file?  I don't know that answer to that question.
>
>   No, I was guessing wrongly about the purpose of the crt.* files in
> .../units/.  I don't know what the problem is, so please do report back what
> you find out from the pascal list and if there's a bug in the way I ported the
> newer gpc to gcc-3.3.3, I'll fix it.
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
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