[fpc-devel] some little errors/notes

[Tomas Hajny]

From:           	"Gerhard Scholz" <gs at g--s.de>
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Hello Gerhard

> some notes on the compiler:
> 
> 1.)
> I tried to compile the compiler itself ("make win32zip") and found the
> following:
> 
> a)
> 
> the routine packages\extra\winunitsjwawownt16.pas contains the line
> (#55)
>   {$WARN SYMBOL_PLATFORM OFF}
> which is not recognized and gives an error.
> I made a real comment out of it:    {   $WARN SYMBOL_PLATFORM OFF}

I applied this change as a temporary workaround now (plus added it to 
our testsuite, so that the issue doesn't get forgotten.


> I wasn' able to find out why the compiler is compiled three times, the
> RTL even four times.

That is more or less a regression test to avoid faulty behaviour of 
the newly produced compiler, plus it ensures we always get the same 
RTL and compiler state regardless of the starting compiler and RTL 
versions.

Thanks for your comments/hints!

Tomas


                             Tomas Hajny, XHajT03 at mbox.vol.cz on Internet