[fpc-devel]Many new warnings

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sun, 30 May 2004 00:04:49 +0200  Peter Vreman <peter at freepascal.org>
wrote:

> At 20:17 29-5-2004, you wrote:
> >On Fri, 28 May 2004 23:24:51 +0200 (CEST)  "Peter Vreman"
> ><peter at freepascal.org> wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > The current cvs fpc 1.9.3 gives many new warnings. The following
> > > > code demonstrates 6 types, where I'm not sure why they now need a
> > > > warning. Maybe the compiler cracks can tell me, which of them should
> > > > I report as bugs:
> > >
> > > Now they are called 'many old warnings'.
> >
> >:)
> >
> >Great.
> >
> >
> >I just got an amok running fpc, allocating mem in an endless loop. It's
> >not reproducable. But it's not the first time in the last few weeks.
> >Anything known about it?
> 
> The compiler was in an endless loop?

Yes.

 
> When you run a compiler (or any other program) with debuginfo you can 
> attach (this is also the gdb command) to it with gdb from a different 
> console when the program is already running. For things like endless loops
> is then usefull to do and then to retrieve the backtrace

It was allocating mem and swap so busily, that the only thing I could do,
was to wait, till linux killed it.



Mattias