[fpc-devel] FPC 2.2.2 on Linux/SPARC

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 05 Sep 2008, at 11:29, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> 
>> Jonas Maebe wrote:
>>> I've committed a fix in 2.3.1. If all goes well in the testsuite run 
>>> tonight, I'll merge it to 2.2.3 over the weekend. I don't know why 
>>> this bug didn't cause crashes in the nightly tests I run on 
>>> sparc/solaris (I have gotten other alignment crashes on this machine 
>>> in the past).
>>
>> Thanks Jonas, I'd missed the earlier comment which must have got lost 
>> by the spam filter. I'll keep an eye for 2.2.3
> 
> It's been merged to 2.2.3 now. You can either download the source 
> zipfile from 
> ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/v22/source/fpc.zip, or get it 
> from svn as described here: 
> http://www.freepascal.org/develop.var#svn (make sure you use the 
> checkout url mentioned in the "Fixes to 2.2.x" section).

fpc and fp appear to work on linux/sparc. However trying to single-step 
or run to a breakpoint in fp fails with another bus error or misaligned 
data access- do I stand any realistic chance of generating a useful 
backtrace for this?

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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