Interesting PASCAL failure

[Brian Reiter]

Hi folks,

I thought I'd float this question here, see if I get a response while embarking on the tortorous route of getting our reseller to organise the ticket.

The pascal compiler (V5.9-95) crashed when building a debug version of an image. (Stack trace attached). This is unusual as the non-debug version build quite happily, in the past I've has problems with optimised code versus non-optimised code.

Any clues while I wait for HP to get in touch?

regards

Brian

[Brian Reiter]

Hmmm,

And it fails on the v6 compiler as well. (see attached).

cheers

Brian

[Volker Halle]

Brian,

the error seems to be happening in the same routine in both compiler versions: DBG_FIND_LOCAL_THUNK

The routine name seems to imply, that it's being used when compiling /DEBUG.

Volker.

[John Gillings]

Brian,

By definition, any compiler generated stack dump is a bug which should be formally reported to HP.

If you can provide a (small?) reproducer, the compiler team will usually respond with a fix quickly. As long as it's not too unwieldy, the reproducer may then be added to the compiler regression test suite.

[Brian Reiter]

John,

I've already put that in motion (through the reseller as we don't have a support contract).

I'll have a word with the engineer and see if we can put to together a reproducer, can't guarantee a small one though.

cheers

Brian

[John Reagan · Accepted solution]

Drat. I thought I fixed all of those for V6.0.

As you guessed, this is with debug support for schema types (even STRING). V5.9 had some problems, but I spent a day or two cleaning it up for V6.0.

I would need to see a reproducer (I'll take something big as long as I have all the files needed to compile the program).

While you are waiting for the "official" response, feel free to send the sources directly to me at "john dot reagan at hp dot com"

John
Pascal Project Leader

[Brian Reiter]

Hi John,

Thanks for that. The engineer is working on the reproducer at the moment. It should be with you soon (I hope).

cheers

Brian