[Oberon] NEW on POINTER TO RECORD always results in NIL (RISC Oberon) - bug?

Paul Reed paulreed at paddedcell.com
Thu May 22 19:54:36 CEST 2014


> Perhaps somebody[tm] can change the notice on the listinfo page that
> tells that without being subscribed you have to wait until an
> administrator approves it (which I am fine with btw, since it was not
> urgent at all :D).
>
>>...  Certainly at one stage I remember, local record types
>> were disallowed altogether.  Would that approach work for you?
>
> I would certainly prefer it to the current situation of silently
> failing. And as most of the things I try to run in RISCOberon are from
> some other Oberon compiler and need some amount of porting anyway,
> changing the pointer types should not make it too much harder :)

Fair enough.  Thanks very much for the feedback.
Paul





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