terrell@druhi.ATT.COM (Eric Terrell) (08/24/88)
About linker problems with O.S.S. Personal Pascal:
I get the "bssanf" error message when I forget to place the
{$M+} directive in the source text of a library.
I have version 2.??.
One bug that I've noticed: if you link with several libraries, when the
linker tries to link with the PASLIB library, it will give an error message
like "Cannot link PAS". When I shortened the names of my libraries, it
managed to link successfully. It looks like the names of all libraries
(user-defined, PASGEM, PASLIB) are stored in a short fixed-length
string. When the user specifies too many filenames, the list of filenames
is longer than the length of the string, and is effectively truncated...
I think that the most serious bugs with Personal Pascal involve the editor.
I almost never get through a long session without having the editor crash on me
at least once.
Except for the problems with the editor, I consider the Personal Pascal system
to be of very high quality.
Eric Terrell