<div dir="ltr"><div>Sure! Which fbc version do we want to target?</div><div><br></div><div>I know I am using fbc 1.07.3 on my new linux box because 1.08.x had some kind of breakage, I forget what</div><div><br></div><div>But I would be happy to get all the nightly build boxes upgraded. I might even have time to do that this weekend!. is 1.07.3 an acceptable target for now?</div><div><br></div><div>---</div><div>James</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 11:53 AM Ralph Versteegen <<a href="mailto:teeemcee@gmail.com">teeemcee@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>The fix I was talking about was just to print a sensible error message instead of a misleading one. I went off on a rant there...</div><div><br></div><div>However, it would be nice (at some point) to upgrade all the nightly build machines to the latest FB version just to get various bug fixes. In particular, array handling is a bit better (FB now keeps track of whether each array is dynamic or fixed length to print clean errors instead of corrupt memory if you try to redim a fixed array), and you can enable array bounds checking without expensive and pointless null ptr checking.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 5 Sept 2021 at 03:22, James Paige <<a href="mailto:Bob@hamsterrepublic.com" target="_blank">Bob@hamsterrepublic.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Haha!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>So maybe the best fix would be for me to upgrade the fbc version on the nightly build box, huh?</div><div><br></div><div>---</div><div>James Paige<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 11:01 AM Ralph Versteegen <<a href="mailto:teeemcee@gmail.com" target="_blank">teeemcee@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 4 Sept 2021 at 20:34, Ralph Versteegen <<a href="mailto:teeemcee@gmail.com" target="_blank">teeemcee@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Oh, yes, that "Illegal parameter specification" error is confusingly printed when there's a cdecl/stdcall calling convention difference between two places a function is declared/defined. I've been meaning to submit a patch for that.</div></div></blockquote><div>Oh, someone already fixed that message in recent FB versions. Oh, turns out it was me... back in 2017.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Those errors only happen on Windows because stdcall is the default in FB (and Windows) but not C, while there's no difference on Unix.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 4 Sept 2021 at 14:33, James Paige <<a href="mailto:Bob@hamsterrepublic.com" target="_blank">Bob@hamsterrepublic.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Oh, I see, it must have been r12334</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div> Fix ?_debug_archive.txt getting spammed with "setup_exception_handler" on Unix</div><br><div> It was always appended to the log regardless of whether there was a ?_debug.txt</div><div> file to archive.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I can see that it changes the definition of early_debuginfo to be extern C. I guess that is what broke on the Windows builds.<br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 8:12 PM James Paige <<a href="mailto:Bob@hamsterrepublic.com" target="_blank">Bob@hamsterrepublic.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I am puzzled. The Windows nightly builds show multiple failures on:</div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><b>common_base.bas(28) error 40: Illegal parameter specification in 'SUB early_debuginfo (msg as const zstring ptr)'</b></span></div><div><br></div><div>But none of the lines that define or use early_debuginfo have been toiuched since like 2019. I wonder why it started failing recently?</div><div><br></div><div>---</div><div>James<br></div></div>
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