[fpc-devel] Should the compiler work, if compiled with -Cr?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 5 May 2013, Bruce Tulloch wrote:

> FWIW, I ran into this problem trying to use the RTL from the FPC 2.6.2 release branch when built with -Cr. Attached is a patch that
> works around the problematic code (in sockets.inc).
> 
> It does not fix the underlying problem (type mismatch upon invocation of ntohl() and friends) but it does allow the RTL to be built
> and used with -Cr (without it, the RTL generates ERangeError).
> 
> I presume it's the intention that the RTL and packages build and run with -Cr, right?

No. I would not put my money on that.

Michael.