On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Andy Sy wrote:
> program blah; > > type > stringy = array[4..10] of char; > > var > C: stringy; > D: array[2..5] of char; > > procedure showstring(I:Integer); > begin > Write(C[I]); > end; > > begin > C:='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'; > D:='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'; > Writeln(D); > showstring(-5); > end. > > > FPC doesn't even complain about range exceeded whether > during compilation or runtime... It does: malpertuus: ~ >ppc386 -Cr -gl testr.pp malpertuus: ~ >./testr ABCD Runtime error 201 at 0x0040DC03 0x0040DC03 SHOWSTRING, line 12 of testr.pp 0x0040DCA9 main, line 19 of testr.pp 0x0040D365 >isn't this an egregious > violation of Pascal's strict typing philosophy? Does > Turbo Pascal/Delphi behave this way as well? Delphi doesn't compile your program: malpertuus: ~ >dcc32 /CC -$$R+ -$$P+ -$$V+ testr.pp Borland Delphi Version 13.0 Copyright (c) 1983,99 Inprise Corporation E:\root\testr.pp(16) Error: Incompatible types: 'stringy' and 'String' E:\root\testr.pp(17) Error: Incompatible types: 'Array' and 'String' E:\root\testr.pp(20) Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
