Pascal compiler sits in the COM state.

[Brian Reiter]

Whoops forgot the attachment

[John Reagan · Accepted solution]

The loop in right in the middle of the optimizer's dataflow phase. I suspect that with /NOCHECK, it was able to optimize or eliminate code before the dataflow phase such that it didn't get confused.

With such bugs in dataflow, we probably need a reproducer. I can tell you how to get some dataflow dumps from the compiler, but it just takes up disk space and probably wouldn't find the problem.

Also, the GEM code generator used in -88 is a few versions old. The 5.9 which will come out later this year uses a newer GEM which might have already fixed the problem.

[John Gillings]

Reminder for Brian

Pascal V5.9 has shipped. Please check to see if it's fixed this problem. If not, log a case so Engineering can look at it.

[Brian Reiter]

Thanks for that. Will soon be battling with VMS 8-2 too :)

cheers

Brian