[fpc-pascal] reading PPU files

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Wed Jun 25 10:57:38 CEST 2008


Mattias Gaertner schrieb:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:14:34 +0200
> Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
>> Mattias Gaertner schrieb:
>>> I want to read ppu files like the ppudump tool.
>>> ppudump uses the unit compiler/ppu.pp, but ppu.ppu is not
>>> installed by default. At least not on debian.
>>>
>>> Should I make a copy of this unit?
>> No ;)
>>
>>> Will this work for the various compilers (e.g. compiling the tool
>>> with 2.2.3 and reading 2.2.x and 2.3.x ppu files)?
>> Sometimes it works, sometimes not. ppudump is also often out of date. 
>> What exactly do you want to achive?
> 
> Reading ppu files with the codetools. First getting information about
> unit dependencies and initialization/finalization sections. Later some
> type information.

Well, if you really dare to do so, the best is probably copying from 
time to time the necessary fpc sources.



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