[fpc-devel] Compiling for libgdb, and using make -j on larger SPARC systems

[Sven Barth]

On 09.08.2013 19:05, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Sven Barth wrote:
>
>>> So you changed the "len = 0" to "len <= 0"? Then this is very strange,
>>> because that almost surely shouldn't happen. Could you please print
>>> somehow (either debugging or Writeln) the value of left.resultdef.typ
>>> (yes, without "e" at the end!) when len <= 0? Then we could at least
>>> check which def produces problematic results here (is suspect records,
>>> but just to be sure).
>>
>> On the other hand the only def that I've found so far that does indeed
>> return -1 in certain cases is the array... hmm...
>
> Noting Pierre's comments from earlier, TIntRegs contains arrays for
> SPARC and PPC (and also for the catch-all case) but not for i386 or 68k.
>

It seems to be a bug in the Sparc code generator nevertheless, because 
the IDE compiles (not assembles/links though :P ) using a Sparc cross 
compiler...

Regards,
Sven