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- Known Bugs
- ==========
-
- Some Amigas, mainly (but not restricted to) some A3000/A4000, cannot use the
- compiler pointer checking option ('-p'). If you get bogus 'ILLEGAL POINTER'
- requesters while running any of your (or my example) programs then you
- should replace the '-p' in the MODULA:M2OPTS file with '-P' and then
- recompile. If you still get spurious errors then remove the flag completely.
- Try to keep it on as much as possible. Pointer checking can catch a lot of
- errors and save a lot of debugging time.
-
- The code used for DIV & MOD use the M68000 semantics, which differ from
- those defined in the Modula standard. The difference is only noticed
- when dealing with negative numbers.
-
- M2B sometimes get confused when implemention modules contain cyclic
- importing (bad style anyway). This normally results in version mismatches at
- compile/link time. Simply invoking M2B again with same command like normally
- works around the problem.
- This works because some of the files will have been successfully compiled,
- so the during the second pass M2B sees things differently.
- If youre program does not contain any cycles then M2B should always work
- perfectly.
-
- Bug reports
- ============
-
- As TM2 is less than a year old, i still expect it to contain obvious
- and not so obvious bugs that have yet to surface.
- Any new features I add, are more likey to contain (unkown) bugs.
-
- As the Amiga interface modules are so large they are likely to contain a few
- mistakes. The structure sizes and constant values have been automatically
- verified with those in the Commodore header files, however is not easily
- possible to mechanically check the types of all parameters and fields.
- Rare mistakes like *mi : Menu* instead of *mi : MenuItem* should be
- detected during compilation: when youre program tries to instantiate the
- parameter/field.
- If you think i have made a mistake in the translation of the header files,
- please let me know.
-
- The executables have not been tested under the enforcer program, so
- may cause hits. I use the pointer checking option (described above)
- during development, so I would be suprised if any occur??
-
- Please send bug reports to turbo@econet.demon.co.uk, and mark them
- URGENT!!
-