ack/examples/hilo.p
George Koehler e4ce7da0a2 Fix hilo.p for big-endian platforms.
Unless it is packed, a Pascal char is a C int.  Using C types, hilo.p
passed an int *buf to uread(), which expected a char *buf.  Then
uread() wrote the char on the end of the int.  This worked on
little-endian platforms.  This failed on big-endian platforms, as
writing the value to the big end of an int multiplied it by 16777216.

The fix is to use a packed array [0..0] of char in Pascal.  I also
change 'string' to a packed array, though this is not a necessary part
of the fix.
2016-09-18 00:07:30 -04:00

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(* $Source$
* $State$
* $Revision$
*)
(*$U+ --- enables underscores in identifiers *)
program hilo(input, output);
type
string = packed array [0..255] of char;
charstar = packed array [0..0] of char;
var
playing : Boolean;
seed : integer;
{ This version of Pascal seems to have no random number generator I can find,
so we have to implement our own here. This is a hacked up and probably
broken version of the C library generator. }
procedure randomise(s : integer);
begin
seed := s;
end;
function random(range : integer) : integer;
begin
seed := (20077 * seed + 12345);
random := seed mod range;
end;
{ Pascal doesn't provide string input, so we interface to the read() syscall
and do it manually. But... we can't interface to read() directly because
that conflicts with a Pascal keyword. Luckily there's a private function
uread() in the ACK Pascal library that we can use instead. }
function uread(fd : integer; var buffer : charstar; count : integer) : integer;
extern;
function readchar : char;
var
c : charstar;
dummy : integer;
begin
c[0] := chr(0);
dummy := uread(0, c, 1);
readchar := c[0];
end;
procedure readstring(var buffer : string; var length : integer);
var
finished : Boolean;
c : char;
begin
write('> ');
length := 0;
finished := FALSE;
seed := 0;
while not finished do
begin
c := readchar;
if (ord(c) = 10) then
finished := true
else
begin
buffer[length] := c;
length := length + 1;
end
end;
end;
procedure getname;
var
name : string;
namelen : integer;
i : integer;
seed : integer;
begin
writeln;
writeln('Hi there! I''m written in Pascal. Before we start, what is your name?');
writeln;
readstring(name, namelen);
writeln;
write('Hello, ');
seed := 0;
for i := 0 to (namelen-1) do
begin
write(name[i]);
seed := seed + ord(name[i]);
end;
randomise(seed);
write('! ');
end;
procedure game;
var
Number : integer;
Attempts : integer;
guess : integer;
begin
writeln('See if you can guess my number.');
Number := random(100);
Attempts := 0;
guess := -1;
while guess <> Number do
begin
Attempts := Attempts + 1;
write('> ');
readln(guess);
if guess < Number then
begin
writeln;
writeln('Try a bit higher.');
end;
if guess > Number then
begin
writeln;
writeln('Try a bit lower.');
end;
end;
writeln;
write('You got it right in only ', Attempts:0, ' ');
if Attempts = 1 then
write('go')
else
write('goes');
writeln('!');
end;
function question: Boolean;
var
response: char;
begin
write('> ');
readln(response);
question := not ((response = 'n') or (response = 'N'));
end;
begin
getname;
playing := TRUE;
while playing do
begin
game;
writeln;
writeln('Would you like another go?');
playing := question;
writeln;
if playing then
write('Excellent! ')
else
writeln('Thanks for playing --- goodbye!');
end;
end.