[fpc-devel] VMS Pascal Compiler mode

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
>> I see from your reference that the compiler extends ANSI/ISO Pascal, but 
>> there's no indication of whether, when it was written, it was based on 
>> Jensen & Wirth or the somewhat later ISO standard. Was it written from 
>> scratch, or was it initially based on something like the P6 compiler 
>> which I believe was on some DEC systems?
> 
> The page he referenced lists extensions to both standard and extended
> pascal. So it seems it is an extended pascal compiler.

Yes, but extended from /what/? Not having- as a particular example- P6 
documentation, that list could describe something like the extensions 
that P6 has relative to ISO plus a set of extensions on top of P6.

>> ** Anybody: what's the state of the -Miso mode? I don't see it in the -h 
>> output.
> 
> Getting fairly close for standard pascal, no extended pascal.

In that case somebody ought to check that it appears in -h output.

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