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

[Sven Barth]

On 12.08.2013 16:06, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Sven Barth wrote:
>
>>>> 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...
>>>
>>> Hold on: the IDE without libgdb compiles OK natively on SPARC. It's only
>>> adding libgdb which screws things.
>>>
>>
>> This might be, but the problem nevertheless suggests a potentially
>> serious compiler bug as the compiler should not raise exceptions (or
>> internal errors) on valid code.
>
> OK, but I'm betting that it would fail if the SPARC cross compiler were
> asked to build with libgdb... is this something you can or do do?

It's not the libgdb itself which triggers problems (well, aside the 
missing dependency), but the inclusion of the fpregs unit which is not 
added if the IDE is not compiled with libgdb support.

> Would it help if I were to build a cross-compiler here and try building
> the IDE both with and without libgdb?
>

It would help more if you'd be able to reduce the problem from "compile 
IDE with libgdb" to "compile this simple unit/program". Thus could you 
please try to reduce the ide/fpregs.pp unit (which contains the 
suspicious TVectorRegs record) so far that it can be compiled standalone 
(no further dependencies), but still triggers the exception?

Regards,
Sven