Re: FPC 2.1.4: Impressions, bugs, questions

Hi Marco

>First,  name OS and architecture. 
Sorry for having listred these info at the bottom, top posting of the
OS etc would be more confusing.

>> (2): Unit CRT has become more buggy. Not only is the striking
>> "no wrap"/scroll bug introduced in 2.0.4 still present, which
>> can be fixed by repairing CrtWrite with 2.0.2 code:
>>
>>   {*WE removed writestr: buggy for CurrX > WindMaxX (no wrap/scroll)}
>>   for i:=0 to f.bufpos-1 do WriteChar(f.buffer[i]);
>
>This would break multi byte character sup****t, which is indeed one of the
>things changed in win32 CRT recently. 

An you think breaking all other code is better? As I said this
behaviour can be observed on Win2K/WinXP and was also re****ted by
users. Just write/writeln a string which is longer than the console
width (WindMaxX)!

>> (5): If compiling in debug mode {$warning on} becomes "superglobal"
>> i.e. it is carried to other units (in 2.0.4)
>
>Afaik this is Delphi compat behaviour?


>
>> (6): "-dDebug -O3" produces "Fatal: Internal error 200409241"
>> in at least one unit (new in 2.1.4)
>
>Submit the relevant code.
>

Download http://home.netsurf.de/wolfgang.ehrhardt/mpint_2007-05-17.zip
and compile for example t_check:


C:\TMP>E:\FPC214\bin\i386-win32\fpc.exe -B -dDebug -O3 t_check.pas
Compiling Debug Version
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.1.4 [2007/05/11] for i386
Copyright (c) 1993-2007 by Florian Klaempfl
mp_base.pas(4727,26) Fatal: Internal error 200409241
Fatal: Compilation aborted
Error: E:\FPC214\BIN\I386-WIN32\ppc386.exe returned an error exitcode
(normal if
 you did not specify a source file to be compiled)

Compilation with FPC2.0.4 is successfull but shows the superglobal
behaviour related to warnings with -dDebug

Thanks for your answer
Wolfgang

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