On Tue, September 9, 2014 10:20, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: . . > I was wondering whether a completely empty program would be a better > test than a "Hello, World!". Could a completely empty program be > recognised by the compiler etc. as a special case and built with only > minimal RTL initialisation, specifically as a test that a program will > load and terminate in good order i.e. that FPC and the OS are > compatible? Or is there a set of portable options that will already do > this, which could be documented prominently? > > After all, there's been comparable issues on ARM, and there might be > more on various platforms in the future.
Isn't there a risk that behaviour of a program not doing anything might look the same as behaviour of a program failing/crashing before doing what it was asked to do? In addition, what is the supposed difference between an "empty program" and program "built with only minimal RTL initialisation"? Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
