On 27/04/18 06:45, Thorsten Engler wrote:
But the only responses are by a reporter named Thaddy de Koning,> which are for
me totally useless and IMO he did miss the point.It's not the first time the
person has been less than helpful...
After looking through other issues he has commented on, I don't think he has
contributed anything beyond, usually wrong, often aggressive and/or insulting,
notes on the tracker.
Note that "reporter" means that somebody's not a manager of the bug
tracker. The designation covers a lot of people who are regular
contributors to- and testers of- the core FPC code, and it's probably
unfair for somebody to accuse one of them of trolling without
considering that.
Having said that, I think that the OP would possibly have made a bit
more headway if he'd reported it as a simple regression against the 2016
version of the compiler. I have to say that I don't think Thaddy has
exactly helped things by implying that a 64-bit double is converted into
an 80-bit extended on an architecture which doesn't support that type.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
_______________________________________________
fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org
http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
