[comp.sys.acorn] free pascal awaiting release

gtoal@tharr.UUCP (Graham Toal) (04/14/91)

I ported (again - did it once before, some years ago) Per Bergsten's
excellent pascal to C translator to the Archie a few months ago.  In
doing so, I pulled some tricks which make it *much* more useful than
the default distribution.  It makes a really nice pascal compiler; just
drop your pas file on the icon and you get a compiled program out the
back end.

Unfortunately, part of the process is to run the C file generated through
a few filters, one of which is a nasty hacked version of Acorn's toansi
program. (I get ptc to insert a keyword into the translated source; I run
mkptypes on it to generate correct headers, and I run the source through
this hacked toansi to insert the headers at the point that ptc asks for
them -- after all the type declarations but just before the first
procedure body)

I wrote to Acorn over a month ago, asking it it were allowed to distribute
this hack of toansi to anyone; I've had no answer yet.  Any Acorn people
out there in a position to say Yea or Nay?

If not, I'll remove the program and include a patch file instead, as ptc
can only be used if you have a C compiler, and the source of toansi comes
with the C compiler.

Graham
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