Bug In Pascal Compiler

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Subject: Bug In Pascal Compiler
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Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 17:01:55 EDT
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From: Robert.White@CMU-CS-GANDALF
After two very frustrating weeks I have found that my problem is really
Apple's and I wish to warn you about it. Situation is as follows:

I was defining a number of windows and set up my own storage for
them in an array whose indices where also the resource number. The array
indices ranged from 256 to 261. I used GetNewWindow. After Initializing
each window I had the program spit out the specifics of the window...they
were never what I had put into the resource file. Then I would get a fatal
system error ID=2. As it turns out the problem is in how the compiler
handles offsets for arrays. My only modification was to change the indeces
to 1 to 6 and everything works fine!

Beware the user of a Lisa that is developing for the Mac.
Robert White
Tech Rep for CMU to the AUC

rjw@cmu-cs-gandalf