Re: new gm2-10.2.1 package available for buster and raspbian

[Philip Munts]

I tried to install your Debian package repository, but I get this error:

# sudo gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 41038A7635126B4A
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No keyserver available

Phil

On 9/18/2020 3:50 AM, Gaius Mulley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought I'd mention that there are new gm2 packages for amd64 (Debian
> Buster) and Raspbian available from floppsie.comp.glam.ac.uk
>
> https://www.nongnu.org/gm2/debian.html
>
> change stretch for buster, I'll be updating the documentation as well.
>
> The bugfix which flushed the new package caused a bootstrap problem (mc
> would no longer bootstrap itself).  It manifested itself when a string
> was used both in a call to a C function and also to a Modula-2
> procedure.  For example:
>
> printf ("\n");
> WriteString ("\n");
>
> would break as the string \n would be converted with escape sequence
> applied - the same string would be incorrectly passed to the Modula-2
> WriteString.  Anyway this is now fixed on master and the 10 branch.
> Internally gm2 keeps track of 4 different kinds of string:
>
>    Modula-2 string "abcde \n"    (no escape applied and no trailing nul)
>    Modula-2 string "abcde \n"    (no escape applied and with trailing nul
>    used during unbounded array and array assignment if there is room)
>    C string "abcde \n"           (escape applied and no trailing nul)
>    C string "abcde \n"           (escape applied and trailing nul used
>                                   for printf and friends)
>
> In other news there was a virtual GCC summit which was pretty
> interesting as GDB will be supporting dwarf5 (work in progress).  Dwarf5
> gives us SET type debugging and MODULE scoping and also WITH scoping.
>
>
> regards,
> Gaius