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

[Sven Barth]

Am 26.08.2013 11:55, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
> Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Sven Barth wrote:
>>
>>>> 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?
>>
>> I'll be back.
>
> This isn't quite what you've asked, but I can duplicate it with a 
> minimal program:
>
>
Well, at least it isn't *that* bad. You should now be able to just cycle 
the compiler (cd compiler && make cycle) and then compile the test 
program to check when things go wrong.
> I'm having problems reducing fpregs to a simple program, I'll post 
> more details once I've been able to look at it on the machine I've 
> moved onto for test purposes.
>
It will be interesting to see what minimal code will trigger the 
problem. Maybe it will point to a more serious problem inside the compiler.

Regards,
Sven