[fpc-devel] On a port of Free Pascal to the IBM 370

[Sven Barth]

Am 18.01.2012 14:08, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
> Tomas Hajny wrote:
>
>>> I can't remember the source, but my understanding is that Wirth
>>> originally worked with an IBM 029 keypunch, possibly connected preparing
>>> decks for a CDC. He specifically defined (* and *) as digraphs for { and
>>> }, and I think there were others including (. and .) for [ and ] Did FPC
>>> /ever/ fully-support these?
>>
>> These should be fine (as easily confirmed by a short test program). I
>> actually use (* and *) for comments quite often to distinguish from other
>> comments using { and }. ;-) I'm not aware of a digraph for the caret sign
>> though which is (as correctly pointed out by you) missing in the EBCDIC
>> character sets specifically targetting English (and also Portuguese
>> apparently ;-) ) - it seems to exist in the "International" character
>> sets.
>
> Some of the {$ directives apparently don't have (*$ equivalents. MACRO
> if I recall correctly.
>

If some of the directives don't work with (*$ instead of {$ then these 
should be reported as bugs.

Regards,
Sven