Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Do you know if that fix has made it into any stable releases and if so which ones?Riku Voipio wrote:On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 03:33:36PM +0100, peter green wrote:The current FPC package builds fine in qemu for me. I will attempt to try on some real hardware too when I get a chance.Qemu allows unaligned memory accesses, which do not always work on real hardware, especially on armv5 and other older arms.Is there a list anywhere of what hardware the buildds run on and/or any other interesting information about their setups so I can try to figure out what if anything the failing buildds have in common. Has anything changed in ancina's configuration recently?All currently running armel buildd's are identical marvell mv78x00 boards. Updates on ancina are the regular "apt-get upgrades" to get latest toolchainetc in sid.There were issues with some versions of FPC, related to more than a certain number of parameters (four?) being passed. Jonas wrote the following on the 5th October last year:
-----8<----- On 05 Oct 2010, at 10:05, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > When running 2.4.0 on an ARM system (Debian v5 "Lenny", armel) with > limited memory (32Mb RAM + 768Mb swap) and using it to compile a large > project (Lazarus 0.9.28.2) I'm seeing intermittent failures which go > away if the make is restarted. I've not seen this running on other > platforms, and I don't believe it is a problem in the Lazarus sources > since the build will eventually complete giving me runnable code.A couple of days ago I fixed an error in svn trunk for ARMEL that caused the stack to become temporarily unbalanced after performing syscalls with 5 or more parameters (the bug is still there for OABI, but I can't fix that because I don't have access to an OABI machine).A side-effect of that bug was that if the caller passed the address of its own result as one of the parameters to the system call, it would afterwards return a random value as its result and checks for error results caused random failures like the one you posted (the reproducible case that allowed me to fix it was a similar error).Jonas ----->8-----There might be alignment issues on ARM and SPARC but I've only seen those with Lazarus, not with FPC itself.