[fpc-devel] symify.pp broken

[Tomas Hajny]

On Mon, April 7, 2008 13:23, Robert Riebisch wrote:
> Peter Vreman wrote:
>
>> >> Runtime error 255 at $000020AC
>> >>   $000020AC of ?·?
>> >>   $000020B8 of ?·?
>> >>   $000020C9 of ?·?
>> >>   $00002098 of ?·?
>> >>
>> >> Looks like the lineinfo unit is also broken.
>> >
>> > But it works for old FPC versions 2.0.4 (dos204.zip), 2.2.0 (my own
>> > build), or 2.2.1 (fpc-2.2.1.go32v2.zip).
>>
>> Parts of the lineinfo related code are rewritten in 2.3.1. There is no
>> active development done on
>> go32v2. So it can be that svn code is broken go32v2.
>
> I identified the problem now: "secofs" value returned by function
> "FindSectionCoff" in file "exeinfo.pp" is always 2,048 bytes too small.
> 2,048 (or $800) is the size of the go32 EXE stub.
>
> I failed to find an elegant solution, that doesn't break PE32 or
> PE32PLUS. Maybe somebody else, who's more familiar with FPC's source
> code, could fix this?! Of course, I could assist as a tester.

If nobody else can do it earlier, I'll try it, but probably not before end
of this week.

Tomas