On 10.02.2013 21:47, Adriaan van Os wrote:
I maintain a large 600.000 FreePascal project that compiles for Mac OS
X. It mixes MacPascal and Delphi compiler modes. Unfortunately the
compiler is now producing random error messages, that disappear on a
clean rebuild. The error messages are not clearly reproduceable.
Sometimes, everything is OK, sometimes the incorrect error messages are
there.
I suspect corrupted .ppu files, I there a way to use a tool (like
ppudump) or a specially built compiler to investigate this problem
systematically, to get an idea of what is wrong ? I do builds through a
Makefile. I could image always adding a ppudump to the builds and then
looking at the output when random error messages popup, comparing the
output to previous builds. Something like that.
An automatic "ppu sanity mode" inside the compiler would even be better.
I suspect that is the same problem that one can sometimes experience
when compiling the compiler from within an IDE (e.g. Lazarus). While I
personally consider this a bug in the compiler (and I hope to fix this
somewhen in the future) it might point to (complex) circular
dependencies between units (involving more than two or three units) that
are not cleanly detected. So one thing you could try is to check for
complex circular dependencies in your code and try to resolve them (yes,
I'm aware this is not that easy, but it's the only advice I can
currently give you).
Regards,
Sven
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