Re: [fpc-devel] Support for FreeBSD PowerPC

2020-10-19 Thread Curtis Hamilton via fpc-devel
Op 2020-10-18 om 23:03 schreef Jonas Maebe via fpc-devel: //>>>/I’ve been able to create a cross compiler using the guidance and some />>>/additional information.  But I’ve been unable to create the proper FPC />>>/startup code (prt0.as) needed. />>>//>>>/Any help would be appreciated. />>/I belie

[fpc-devel] A difficult optimisation

2020-10-19 Thread J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel
Hi everyone, So I've been studying the disassembler dumps of the RTL for some new possible optimisations, and I've found a potential one that's a little trickier than normal: ... # Peephole Optimization: MovxMov2Movx     movslq    %eax,%rbx     jmp    .Lj83     .p2align 4,,10     .p2align 3 .

[fpc-devel] Peephole Optimizer - work in reducing number of passes

2020-10-19 Thread J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel
Hi everyone, Being on a working Intel laptop full-time again, I've gone back to looking at the Peephole Optimizer like I always used to do. One thing I've been focusing on is an attempt to reduce the number of passes of the Peephole Optimizer, since a single pass amounts to stepping through e

Re: [fpc-devel] A slightly different bug report!

2020-10-19 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel
Gareth, I deleted it, you did right to mark it as spam. Michael. On Mon, 19 Oct 2020, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote: Hi everyone, I just closed a bug report with a comment that it was 'spam'. Would you agree? https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=37957 Is there a specific way s

Re: [fpc-devel] A slightly different bug report!

2020-10-19 Thread J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel
Well, it looks like it got deleted completely! (It was a weird advertisement for a security architect or something... someone needs to tell their advertiser that bug trackers aren't the place to get your name out!) Gareth aka. Kit On 19/10/2020 10:17, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote: H

[fpc-devel] A slightly different bug report!

2020-10-19 Thread J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel
Hi everyone, I just closed a bug report with a comment that it was 'spam'. Would you agree? https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=37957 Is there a specific way such 'bugs' should be handled? Gareth aka. Kit -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://ww