[fpc-devel] Revisiting MacOS for PPC (and possibly 68K)

[Sven Barth]

Am 10.12.2012 12:15, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
> I'm currently cross-compiling the MacOS RTL for PPC on a PC. I've 
> fixed some trivial issues that had crept in since this was last 
> maintained, some of which affect other targets, but am stuck at the 
> errors below.
>
> /usr/local/src/fpc/fpc-trunk/compiler/ppcXppc -Ur -Tmacos -Ppowerpc 
> -XPpowerpc-macos- -Xr -Ur -Xs -O2 -n -Fi../inc -Fi../powerpc -FE. 
> -FU/usr/local/src/fpc/fpc-trunk/rtl/units/powerpc-macos -dpowerpc 
> -dRELEASE  -Us -Sg system.pp
> text.inc(1789,14) Warning: Implicit string type conversion from 
> "AnsiString" to "UnicodeString"
> text.inc(2013,44) Warning: Implicit string type conversion with 
> potential data loss from "UnicodeString" to "AnsiString"
> system.pp(481,2) Warning: User defined: To be implemented - using 
> GetProcessInformation???
> system.pp(571) Fatal: Internal error 2003090901
> Fatal: Compilation aborted
> make[2]: *** [system.ppu] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/fpc/fpc-trunk/rtl/macos'
>
> Allowing that system.pp ends at line 570, I presume that something 
> after  line 481 is confusing the compiler. Any suggestions would be 
> appreciated.
>

Not necessarily. It seems to be related to something "external".

You could try the following by adjusting the compiler source: before the 
internalerror (in compiler/powerpc/agppcmpw.pas) add a 
"writeln(tasmsymbol(p).typ)" and maybe also a "AsmFlush" so that the 
assembler file up to the error will be written so you can see in which 
function the problem exists.

You could also debug the compiler (copy the command line from the 
Makefile's output) when compiling the system unit and place a breakpoint 
on the internalerror and then investigate the "p" variable.

Regards,
Sven