[fpc-pascal] Compiling FPC for SPARC

[Vincent Snijders]

Mark Morgan Lloyd schreef:
> Jonas Maebe wrote:
> 
>>> The only thing that bothers me here is that while this is the
>>> correct solution
>>> it might not be possible. With the major caveat that I'm a beginner
>>> at this but
>>> I've demonstrated that 2.0.0 can't compile 2.0.2, and I suspect
>>> that once I've
>>> fixed the missing syscall I still might be left with something that
>>> the existing
>>> compiler can't process :-(
>> This is not a case of something the existing compiler cannot process,
>> but a platform-specific include file which was not updated while
>> others were. The SPARC exit_group syscall is 188 according to
>>    http://lxr.linux.no/source/include/asm-sparc/unistd.h#L207
>>
>> But yes, it's possible you'll find a few more things like this before
>> everything compiles, since the SPARC/Linux port has not been
>> maintained for a while.
> 
> Working on it. I know that this particular problem is not related to a compiler
> problem, but I've already (I think) demonstrated that the 2.0.0 compiler on
> SPARC has problems with the 2.0.2 sources. I've got a horrid feeling that once
> the missing stuff is fixed I'll hit the same problem :-(
> 

Such problem will need to be fixed anyway, maybe with some ifdefs in the RTL. So it 
is a good thing you find them, as long as you fix them in the latest source.

Vincent