Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rochester!ken From: ken@rochester.arpa (Ken Yap) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: Pointer problem ? Message-ID: <777@sol.ARPA> Date: Sat, 25-Jul-87 05:29:43 EDT Article-I.D.: sol.777 Posted: Sat Jul 25 05:29:43 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 18:28:18 EDT References: <254@askja.UUCP> <259@axis.fr> Reply-To: ken@rochester.UUCP (Ken Yap) Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY Lines: 10 Nobody has pointed out that the declaration type p1 = ^p1; introduces a type which can have nothing done to it except being assigned nil and compared with nil. It is this "loop" which may the cause of the compiler bug. Ken