Re: CHAR as FOR loop control variable

[Gaius Mulley]

Michael Riedl <udo-michael.riedl@t-online.de> writes:

> Hallo Gaius,
>
> just recognised that GM2 (14.0.0) does not like a CHAR type FOR loop
> control variable any more ... :-)
>
> The compilation gave quite miss-leading error messages
>
> mriedl@laptop:~/Modula-2/InOut/quellen.gm2$make RealConvert.o
> ~/Modula-2/Numerik/TestRoutinen/Tools/convreal < RealConvert.mi  >
> RealConvert.mod
> gm2 -c -fiso -flibs=iso -I
> /usr/local/gm2/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu//14.0.0/m2/m2iso -I 
> /usr/local/gm2/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu//14.0.0/m2/m2pim -I
> /home/mriedl/Modula-2/Numerik/quellen.gm2 -I 
> /home/mriedl/Modula-2/InOut/quellen.gm2 -I
> /home/mriedl/Modula-2/Numerik/TestRoutinen/LinAlg -L 
> /home/mriedl/Modula-2/Numerik/quellen.gm2 -L
> /home/mriedl/Modula-2/InOut/quellen.gm2 -L 
> /usr/local/gm2/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu//14.0.0/m2/m2iso -L
> /usr/local/gm2/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu//14.0.0/m2/m2pim -O2 -g -O2 
> -fno-m2-plugin  RealConvert.mod
> /usr/local/gm2/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu//14.0.0/m2/m2iso/ConvTypes.def:38:1:
> Fehler: type incompatibility, attempting to use a string ('_T37') when
> a CHAR is expected
> /usr/local/gm2/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu//14.0.0/m2/m2iso/ConvTypes.def:38:1:
> Fehler: type incompatibility, attempting to use a string ('_T37') when
> a CHAR is expected
> /usr/local/gm2/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu//14.0.0/m2/m2iso/ConvTypes.def:38:1:
> Fehler: type incompatibility, attempting to use a string ('_T37') when
> a CHAR is expected
> /usr/local/gm2/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu//14.0.0/m2/m2iso/ConvTypes.def:38:1:
> Fehler: type incompatibility, attempting to use a string ('_T37') when
> a CHAR is expected
> Makefile:385: recipe for target 'RealConvert.o' failed
> make: *** [RealConvert.o] Error 1
>
> Here the simplified code reproducing the error

Hi Michael,

ah yes many thanks!  This looks like the bug was introduced after fixing
the constant char + constant char -> string.  I suspect the internal INC
(ch) is creating a string :-),

Will fix it..

regards,
Gaius