On 19 Oct 2007, at 11:21, Micha Nelissen wrote:
Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 19 Oct 2007, at 11:00, Micha Nelissen wrote:
Elaborate please ? You mean debugging of the compiler, but don't
you always work on new compilers ? When debugging, you could copy
the ppu to the "old" RTL if you're using an old RTL with a new
compiler ?
My global install of FPC 2.2.0 does not include this unit.
Compiling it with 2.2.0 and adding it to my global installation is
what I consider needlessly complex
This was not my intention. I thought you meant with "debugging
difficulty" you were trying to debug the RTL by comparing the
compiler behaviour with two different RTLs or so.
Since the compiler is always compiled using its own RTL
This is not true. You can perfectly compile a compiler using the
previous' release rtl. E.g. the people developing using the fp IDE
often do this (because they have a project for the compiler, but that
one does not automatically compile the rtl). A while ago, Peter
removed several dependencies of the compiler on the new rtl (related
to endian swapping routines) for this reason.
Jonas
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