rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang) (04/16/89)
I'm interested in finding a Pascal compiler to run under UNIX (on a Sun-3, though it would be nice if it ran on a VAX as well). 'pc' doesn't even compile Pascal, let alone doing a good job of it. Is there any Pascal compiler out there? Are there any which generate halfway-decent code? Any which are ISO compliant? +---------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ | Anton Rang (grad student) | "VMS Forever!" | "Do worry...be SAD!" | | Michigan State University | rang@cpswh.cps.msu.edu | | +---------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
art@buengc.BU.EDU (A. R. Thompson) (04/17/89)
In article <2552@cps3xx.UUCP> rang@cpswh.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang) writes: >I'm interested in finding a Pascal compiler to run under UNIX (on a >Sun-3, though it would be nice if it ran on a VAX as well). 'pc' >doesn't even compile Pascal, let alone doing a good job of it. Is >there any Pascal compiler out there? Are there any which generate >halfway-decent code? Any which are ISO compliant? I've been using the Oregon Software Pascal-2 compiler. It's really quite good. It has many of the extensions of the new proposed Extended Pascal, functions that return structured results, dynamic strings, cantankerous (oops, I meant conformant) arrays, a sort of separate compilation (not quite right but almost), random access files and a whole bunch of little things. The code it generates runs fast but the object files are quite large. Unfortunately, it's not free, but it's worth it.