[fpc-pascal] Error format question

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 11 Apr 2020, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote:

> Sorry to ask this yet again but I keep forgetting or remembering wrong. I thought this was a one time error that was fixed but I'm still getting different error formats with the trunk (as of today) vs 3.0.4.
>
> Can anyone please confirm which it the correct format I should rely on?
>
>
> Ryans-MacBook-Pro-2:~ ryanjoseph$ fpc -vbr /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas 
> Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.4 [2018/09/30] for x86_64
> Copyright (c) 1993-2017 by Florian Klaempfl and others
> Target OS: Darwin for x86_64
> Compiling /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas
> /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas:6: error: 1: Identifier not found "f"
> /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas:7: error: 4: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
> error: Compilation aborted
> Ryans-MacBook-Pro-2:~ ryanjoseph$ /usr/local/lib/fpc/3.3.1/ppcx64 -vbr /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas 
> Free Pascal Compiler version 3.3.1 [2020/04/11] for x86_64
> Copyright (c) 1993-2020 by Florian Klaempfl and others
> Target OS: Darwin for x86_64
> Compiling /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas
> /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas:6:1: error: Identifier not found "f"
> /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas:7:4: error: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
> error: Compilation aborted

This is what I get:

araminta: ~ >fpc -vbr ti.pp
/Users/michael/ti.pp:8: error: 6: Incompatible type for arg no. 1: Got "ShortInt", expected "{Open} Array Of SmallInt"
/Users/michael/ti.pp:9: error: 4: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
error: Compilation aborted
Error: /usr/local/bin/ppcx64 returned an error exitcode
araminta: ~ >ppcx64-3.0.4 -vbr ti.pp
/Users/michael/ti.pp:8: error: 6: Incompatible type for arg no. 1: Got "ShortInt", expected "{Open} Array Of SmallInt"
/Users/michael/ti.pp:9: error: 4: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
error: Compilation aborted

My guess is you have a config file lying around that causes this to look
different (-Fr option?), or you have a custom-made errore.msg file built-in.

Try -var to see why.

Michael.