Good to hear from you Pierre - I was afraid that something had happened because you had gone silent without much warning.  But yes, one has to be patient, and I'll try my best.

I'll say something though... the work I've done with the compiler is proving to be a good selling point in job interviews, so I thank you and Florian for allowing me the opportunity to play around with it!

Gareth aka. Kit


On 18/06/2019 06:10, Pierre Muller wrote:

Le 18/06/2019 à 04:21, J. Gareth Moreton a écrit :
Hi everyone,

So I sent my last update/fix/patch for the XML core dump feature 3 weeks
ago, but my main liaison, Pierre, seems to have vanished for the time
being.  Hopefully he's okay, but it means the feature is currently in
limbo and I could greatly benefit from its use in developing future
ideas, and I'm sure other developers will find use in it too.
https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=35017
   Hi all,

as you might remember, there are only afew volonteers behind this project,
which all have also 'a real life' which makes them not available
at all times for 'Free Pascal' project.

   Besides, there are numerous other problems that I am also trying to
tackle and resolve.

   Otherwise, thank you very much for your concern, but I am OK,
just not as available as I would like...

   Coming back to the XML dump feature that you developed,
I do think that it is now in a better state, and it will probably be
integrated into main trunk after I find time to re-run the different checks
that I used for the mutual feedback.

   I cannot give you any fixed date for this, as it will depend greatly on
the time I can find for Free Pascal, and on those other tasks.


On another note, I've made some fixes to compiler issues when it comes
to x86 assembly language, specifically the SSE and AVX instructions that
deal with single rather than packed data, because a number of
instructions would throw false warnings or errors due to incorrect
operand sizes, even though they are actually correct.  Details can be
found here: https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=35700 (this one has
a couple of linked issues too).
   My knowledge about those i386/x86_64 extensions is too vague,
so you will need to find another core developer to handle this bug report.

   Keep on the good work, and try to be patient with
other members that have less time to dedicate to Free Pascal!

Pierre
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