"DECWRL Modula-2 Question"

[Peter Herr]

This Modula-2 program

    MODULE exprt;

    FROM io IMPORT output, Writef;

    VAR a, b: INTEGER;

    BEGIN

      b := 101;

      a := 10 * (b - 1);

      Writef(output, "'%8d'\n", a);

      IF a = 1000
      THEN Writef(output, "This is ok !\n")
      ELSE Writef(output, "This is  n o t  ok !\n")
      END;

    END exprt.

delivers the following output: (when compiled with the
DECWRL Modula-2 Compiler under ULTRIX 3.0) :

'    1010'
This is  n o t  ok !


Does this ugly error appear with older ULTRIX-versions, too ?

Does anybody know if DEC will come out sometime with a new Version of
this Compiler in which all the errors (some of which are known for
at least 4 years) are corrected ?

Peter Herr
Technische Universitaet Braunschweig
Institut fuer Programmiersprachen und Informationssysteme
Abteilung Datenbanken
Postfach 3329
D-3300 Braunschweig

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