Re: [fpc-devel] Test changes in e.g. a package

2018-07-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, Bart wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: In general: no. OK I pity the compiler devels, especially in the past with slower hardware. Yes, it can be time-consuming. But: * if the package does not have dependencies, you can just recomp

Re: [fpc-devel] Test changes in e.g. a package

2018-07-18 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-devel
Bart schrieb am Mi., 18. Juli 2018, 23:36: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Michael Van Canneyt > wrote: > > > In general: no. > > OK > I pity the compiler devels, especially in the past with slower hardware. > The compiler devels more often than not only work with the compiler and RTL direct

Re: [fpc-devel] Test changes in e.g. a package

2018-07-18 Thread Bart
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > In general: no. OK I pity the compiler devels, especially in the past with slower hardware. > > But: > * if the package does not have dependencies, you can just recompile that > package. > cd packages/fcl-registry > make clean al

Re: [fpc-devel] Soft Float for AVR

2018-07-18 Thread Christo Crause
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, 14:33 Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis via fpc-devel, < fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > Hi, > >AFAIU, the AVR architecture doesn't support floating point variables. > >I want to ask if soft float support ( like ARM ) is planned. Does > anyone work or plan to work on t

Re: [fpc-devel] Soft Float for AVR

2018-07-18 Thread Mathias
Hello The AVR does not support floating-point numbers on the hardware side. The ATtiny does not even support multiplications of Interger. The ATMega supports least multiplications of integers. Divisions do not support everyone. This refers to the 8-bit AVR, as it looks with the others, I do not

[fpc-devel] Soft Float for AVR

2018-07-18 Thread Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis via fpc-devel
Hi, AFAIU, the AVR architecture doesn't support floating point variables. I want to ask if soft float support ( like ARM ) is planned. Does anyone work or plan to work on this ? regards, -- Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis ___ fpc-devel maillist - fp

Re: [fpc-devel] Test changes in e.g. a package

2018-07-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, Bart wrote: Hi, Sorry if this is a RTFM question. Whenever I make some changes to the sourcecode of e.g. a package or an RTL-file, in order to test these changes I do a make clean/make install in the root directory. (e.g. I change one line in packages/flc-registry/src/re

[fpc-devel] Test changes in e.g. a package

2018-07-18 Thread Bart
Hi, Sorry if this is a RTFM question. Whenever I make some changes to the sourcecode of e.g. a package or an RTL-file, in order to test these changes I do a make clean/make install in the root directory. (e.g. I change one line in packages/flc-registry/src/regini.inc) This takes several minutes (