Re: gm2 internal compiler error report

[Alice Osako]

Gaius Mulley:

> The language references I use are:  "Programming in Modula-2" 4th Ed
> (and 2nd, 3rd) by Niklaus Wirth.
>
>    https://freepages.modula2.org/report4/modula-2.html
>
> and the ISO m2 standard, which sadly is not available online.
> (Also worth exploring: https://freepages.modula2.org/tutor.html).
> Maybe someone on the list would know whether there are ISO m2 books
> freely available?
>     
    Ah, thank you very much! While I had found the tutorial, somehow I
    had missed the reference book before; this helps tremendously.
    


> Thanks for the bug report - I believe this is fixed in the latest git
> gcc repro (gcc-14):
>
> $ gm2 -g -Idefs -fiso -c impls/UTF8.mod 
> impls/UTF8.mod:47:13: error: In procedure ‘GetExtChar’: type incompatibility between ‘CARDINAL’ and ‘BYTE’
>    47 |    RETURN b - {7, 6};
>       |           ~~^~~~~~~~
>
> $ gm2 --version
> gm2 (GCC) 14.0.1 20240308 (experimental)
>
> I'll back port the fix to gm2 13.2
>     
    
    Again, thank you for your hard work and patience.