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 Marco van de Voort to All 
 Re: FPC - trying again :( 
 10 Jan 12 23:19:09 
 
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lang.pascal.borland:491
From: Marco van de Voort 

On 2012-01-10, Robert AH Prins  wrote:
> 3) Start fp.exe via the Windows Explorer.

Try a command prompt. Via explorer might not set working dir.

> - primary file c:\lift\lift.pas
> - assembler style: Intel (but no conditional define of "asm")
> - mode debug
> - backtrace line info for debugging
> - rest all defaults
>
> Note: It would be very nice to have an option that would write the 
> entire environment into a simple text file for inclusion in postings, I 
> haven't been able to figure out where Compiler options are stored, I 
> expected fp.ini, but changing the state of e.g. Range Checking does not 
> change fp.ini...

1. Clean out redundant assembler. It might have hidden assumptions about
   compiler and rtl internals. 
2. Provide hh_common and other missing sources so we can actually test?!?

> Q1: Why doesn't FPC allow longint's, like VP that has gettime also 
> defined with words?

Redundant.

> Q2: Why do I have to add dword qualifiers to the
> "mov   eax, dword [eax * 2 + offset h_desc]" statements, shouldn't it be 
> clear from the first operand that I'm loading a dword?

No idea.

> 8) F8-F8-F8 and kaboom... (on the "reset(liftin)" statement)

See above. Without a complete set of sources it is hard to test.


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