[fpc-devel]Recompile the RTL to trace bugs

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Mon May 3 20:00:38 CEST 2004


> if you really want to do that and fix the problem, I also will be very
> happy, so maybe that will be an extra motivation for you :)
> 
> For two years I have been trying FPC on my projects, that use dynarrays
> heavily. There were always problems, first year I was patiently reporting
> each new problem, but when I saw that they never go away, or go away and
> then return, or go away in few month to let me see next problem, I decided
> that this way the dynarrays in FPC will only work after 10 years, so I gave
> up. SetLength for dynarrays and openarrays, was always corrupting memory. It
> was fixed many times, and still does that again. And yes, you cannot often
> creat simple programs to bug report them. It probably has to do something
> with functions calling, releasing memory at the end of function, or
> something of that sort.

This could be one dangling pointer that is messing up your heap.

Please keep to the facts, and don't spread unnecessary rumours.




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