[fpc-pascal] FPC Bombs

[John Youngquist]

Jonas Maebe wrote:

>
> On 10 May 2008, at 22:30, John Youngquist wrote:
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>> Jonas Maebe wrote:
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>>>
>>> On 10 May 2008, at 21:34, John Youngquist wrote:
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>>>> I am a regular user of FPC and find it is a great system. I ported
>>>> a 10k line application from BP7 and it ran ten times faster.
>>>> I am stuck with a problem that seems to happen about
>>>> every month or so. When I click on the icon to start the program
>>>> it just flashes on screen and exits so fast you can't see anything.
>>>
>>>
>>> To start which program? The fp IDE, or your own program? If it's  
>>> your  own program, try compiling it with debugging information and  
>>> running  it in the debugger.
>>
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>>
>> I don't think its my program because it worked fine last time i  
>> opened it.
>
>
> I meant "Which program just flashes on screen and exits so fast you  
> can't see anything". From your answer above, I gather that it's not  
> your own program? So which program is it?
>
>> I just fixed it by removing FPC and deleting the FPC directory where
>> it was installed then reinstalling. I dislike this a fix cause you  
>> don't
>> know the cause. I did notice some stuff leftover from the remove but
>> didn't keep it.
>
>
> If it is the Free Pascal IDE (fp.exe), you may want to try deleting  
> all occurrences of "fp.dsk" and "fp.ini" you can find on your hard  
> drive. Those store the IDE's settings. If such a file becomes  
> corrupted for whatever reason, that might cause the IDE to crash.
>
>
It was the IDE opening my source that flashed and died. Although it 
didn't even show a glimpse of the source before dying.
It's good to know what thoses files are for. I never ran across any 
documentation on them. I will certainly give that a try
next time.

Never the less FPC is a marvelous system.

Thanks   JY



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