[fpc-devel] About ppudump program

[Jonas Maebe]

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On 22 Jun 2010, at 14:40, Doriano Blengino wrote:

> At this time I am trying to finish a good auto-completion, so I need  
> to extract symbols from pre-compiled PPUs (especially the runtime  
> standard libraries). Right now I use ppudump(1) to extract symbols,  
> but I could switch in future to the use of ppu.pas. I noticed that  
> different freepascal releases do not share a common PPU file format,  
> so using ppu.pas inside the IDE would force the user to use the same  
> compiler version as the one used to compile the IDE. On the other  
> hand, I noticed that the release 2.4.x is the first one which  
> reports "v100" for a PPU file, which hopefully indicates that future  
> releases could be PPU-compatible...

The "version number" in PPU files is just an increasing byte. 100 is  
not "1.00", it's "one hundred". It has no special meaning.

> Now, I would ask an advice: is it better to stick to ppudump, at a  
> price of some reduction in speed, and the risk that its output could  
> change in future, invalidating the IDE parsing routines?

You should use ppudump.


Jonas