[fpc-devel] mips-linux and mipsel-linux snapshots available

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Sergei Gorelkin wrote:
> 30.11.2012 1:46, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>
>> Running the program using the modified GDB, I get the same as before:
>>
>> 0 1>markMLl at pye-dev-07d:~$ which gdb
>> /usr/local/bin/gdb
>> 0 1>markMLl at pye-dev-07d:~$ gdb /usr/local/bin/ppcmips
>> GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0.1-debian
>> ..
>> (gdb) set arg -h
>> (gdb) run
>> Starting program: /usr/local/bin/ppcmips -h
>>
>> Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
>> 0x0043eb88 in SYSUTILS_$$_UNIXTOWINAGE$LONGINT$$LONGINT ()
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0  0x0043eb88 in SYSUTILS_$$_UNIXTOWINAGE$LONGINT$$LONGINT ()
>> #1  0x0043fa6c in 
>> SYSUTILS_$$_FINDGETFILEINFO$ANSISTRING$TSEARCHREC$$BOOLEAN ()
>> #2  0x0043fdc4 in SYSUTILS_$$_FINDNEXT$TSEARCHREC$$LONGINT ()
>> Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
>> (gdb)
>>
> This was caused by insufficient alignment of Double-typed temp 
> variables, fixed in r23146.
> Moreover, it appeared that function UnixToWinAge wasn't doing anything 
> useful since year 2005, so it was removed in r23145, making 
> FindFirst/FindNext routines somewhat faster (and able to run without FPU).
> 
> Now I am able to run the big-endian MIPS compiler on QEMU. Hoping you'll 
> be able to reproduce it, too.

I'll see what I can do, but I've not got any real hardware running here 
which is causing me problems (Qemu performance isn't brilliant).

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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