Hello! First I wrote about this issue to Florian Klampfl, but looks like he is on vacation or something like that - there have been no messages from him in mailing list for about a week. So I am repeating, now with mailing list.
I am author of the ALGLIB - open source numerical analysis library. ALGLIB contains C++, C#, VB6 and Delphi code (same functionality in different languages). ALGLIB 2.1.2 is tested under Win32 compilers only, but next release will be tested under wide set of Windows and Linux compilers (both x86 and x86_64). Since Delphi is Windows-only and have no free command line compiler, I want to make transition to the FreePascal compiler. Targeting free cross-platform compiler seems better alternative than targeting proprietary x86+Windows only compiler without even free command-line toolset. I've planned to announce full FPC compatibility in ALGLIB 2.2.0 However, I have problems with x86_64 FreePascal for Linux (bug #15206, http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=15206 - compiler crashes when trying to compile ALGLIB). May I ask when are you going to make next FPC release and will bug #15206 be fixed in that release? Currently it is the only thing that stops me from declaring full FreePascal compatibility for upcoming ALGLIB 2.2.0 Another question: are you interesting in using ALGLIB as a part of the FPC test suite? Large numerical analysis libraries are good in triggering compiler bugs (for example, GMP and MPFR have discovered many bugs in GCC). I can help you with testing new FPC releases on x86/x86_64 platforms, if you want. Sergey Bochkanov. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
