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

Florian Klämpfl florian at freepascal.org
Sun May 5 11:19:51 CEST 2013


Am 05.05.2013 11:14, schrieb Marco van de Voort:
> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
>>> fcl-passrc, chm and fpdoc are afaik fairly clean. When debugging fpdoc I
>>> always build those packages with -CRriot and fixed all issues.
>>>
>>> I've also done whole make all builds with that, and fixed some issues, but
>>> didn't see it through till the end.
>>
>> I just wanted to indicate what you now confirm:
>> No concerted effort was made to ensure that -Cr can be used safely on packages.
>>
>> I can't comment on RTL/Compiler, but for packages, I would not count on being 
>> able to use -Cr
> 
> More importantly, since there are only few nightly tests for packages/ there is no
> way to keep it that way once it has been done. 
> 
> That needs tests that stress the most important codepaths.

Yes, but if there is some obvious range check error which could be
fixed, it should be done so.




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