HP PPL compiler big, nasty, hairy, smelly, creapy BUG!

[patrice]

Quote:Your line EXPR("A:=9"); is doing nothing more than assigning the value 9
to the reserved HOME Real variable A.

The line has nothing to do with indirect addressing.

There is no pointer in your code that points indirectly to a variable!

The EXPR line is something like the minimum code to exhibit a supposed bug.

What do you think your indirect thing is doing?
You forge an arbitrary string that is fed to EXPR, my arbitrary string is "A:=9".
That your string is a constant or that you build it on fly following any way you want, you end up with a string.

do you prefer ? Is it indirect enough for you ?

Code:

EXPORT Indirect_Addressing()
BEGIN
LOCAL Ptr, Value, Tmp;
Ptr:="A"; Value:=9; Tmp:= Ptr+ ":="+ Value;
EXPR(Tmp);
END;