[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#985946: patch proposal

[Abou Al Montacir]

Hi David,

On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 10:17 +1100, David Bannon wrote:
> Its in Sid now.  Given the nature of the application, its pretty unlikely it
> will get any use on POWER anyway.  The problem is, IMHO, in FPC, a fix to that
> will take some time to propagate to Debian, FPC has a slower release cycle
> than Lazarus. I believe the same problem will apply to all FPC apps on
> PowerPC64.
That is not a problem, we can always cherry-pick the patch fixing this and push
it in a new upload. Many bugs where fixed that way in the past.
> 
> Hmm, I wonder why you don't see it in Lazarus ?   I did my tests using a
> binary fpc from FPC site. As such, I probably would have grabbed FPC 3.2.3, a
> "release candidate".  Maybe, the hardening problem does not exist with FPC
> 3.2.2 ?   Thats something I had better investigate.  If its a regression, we
> better act reasonably quickly. If its only in FPC 3.2.3 and gets released in
> FPC 3.2.4, you will end up with it. Bad ...
I think the main reason is that Lazarus builds using Debian FPC package, so all
RTL units are compiled with -Cg while in your case you are using a non Debian
FPC binary which chips RTL without -Cg. Then a conflict may cause your issues.
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir

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