[fpc-devel] Running test suite for 2.1.4 on linux/sparc

[Jonas Maebe]

On 16 Jul 2007, at 16:12, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

> Incidentally, something curious here. You might remember that a  
> week ago I was getting stuck on the inconsistent register- 
> assignment nasty, I built and installed an apparently-working 2.1.4  
> shortly after you pointed out that it tended to be a transiant  
> problem. Odd thing is that since that point I've gone through the  
> entire exercise a second time- 2.0.0 binary compiling 2.0.4 hence  
> compiling 2.1.4, and the 2.1.4 compilation hadn't failed.

I know, it only happens intermittently (in a way that suggests an  
uninitialised variable or memory localtion), but have no idea what  
it's caused by. Valgrind doesn't find anything in an i386 to sparc  
cross compiler, so it's probably an error somewhere in the sparc code  
generator (or in a sparc rtl assembler routine)


Jonas