Re: [fpc-devel] Kit's ambitions!

2018-06-15 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
Sorry, I just realised that was unfairly impatient of me.  I've still got little things I can work on, but I'm worried about creating a large backlog. Gareth On Fri 15/06/18 21:11 , "J. Gareth Moreton" gar...@moreton-family.com sent: Something tells me that we should write our own patch.exe

Re: [fpc-devel] Kit's ambitions!

2018-06-15 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
Something tells me that we should write our own patch.exe at some point to alleviate these shortcomings!  Thanks for the patch again. Any word on what I've submitted so far? I ask because I found some new peephole optimisations that can make some good speed and size savings, but one of them requ

Re: [fpc-devel] Kit's ambitions!

2018-06-15 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 15.06.2018 um 18:17 schrieb J. Gareth Moreton: Not much luck for me - the file won't patch without options or modifications, and using -p 1 to remove the "a/" and "b/" from the starts of the files causes an assertion in patch.exe. Sorry, my bad. The patch has unix line feeds, this crashes p

Re: [fpc-devel] Kit's ambitions!

2018-06-15 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
Not much luck for me - the file won't patch without options or modifications, and using -p 1 to remove the "a/" and "b/" from the starts of the files causes an assertion in patch.exe.  Back to doing it manually for now! Gareth On Fri 15/06/18 16:23 , Florian Klämpfl flor...@freepascal.org sent

Re: [fpc-devel] Kit's ambitions!

2018-06-15 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
Oh! I'm still a beginner with version control, it seems! On Fri 15/06/18 16:23 , Florian Klämpfl flor...@freepascal.org sent: > Am 14.06.2018 um 23:49 schrieb J. Gareth Moreton: > > > Hi Florian, > > > > > > I don't know if you have any answers, but I'm > unable to apply any patches I rece

Re: [fpc-devel] Kit's ambitions!

2018-06-15 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 14.06.2018 um 23:49 schrieb J. Gareth Moreton: Hi Florian, I don't know if you have any answers, but I'm unable to apply any patches I receive. I can view them and see the changes, and manually apply them via copy+paste if I have to, but using the "Apply Patch" option ends up not doing anyt

[fpc-devel] Maximum symbol length

2018-06-15 Thread Blaise
What is the official maximum symbol length? If it is 255, as the definition "TSymStr = ShortString" suggests, then FPC does not always take proper care of it. In particular, TGNUAssembler.WriteTree has plenty of concatenations similar to this one writer.AsmWriteLn(tai_symbol(hp).sym.name

Re: [fpc-devel] targetandroid

2018-06-15 Thread Adriaan van Os
Jonas Maebe wrote: Apple's "as" is extremely outdated and contains many bugs. I have not tested darwin-as anymore recently, so it is quite possible that it no longer works. If you do not wish to use clang as assembler (note that you do not have to use the one provided by Apple; you can use a n