[fpc-devel] FPC 3.2.2-RC1 release, now with working link!

[Florian Klämpfl via fpc-devel]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:24:12 +0100

Hello,
We have placed the first release candidate of the Free Pascal Compiler
version 3.2.2 on our ftp servers.
You can help improve the upcoming 3.2.2 release by downloading and
testing this release. If you want you can report what you have done
here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Testers_3.2.2 or in the maillist.

Test step 11 is "Run testsuite". The last time we were testing a relese
candidate, the test suite had a small number of failures, but to a
casual tester it was not clear what to do about it; which tests are
expected to be failing, which are dealbreakers, etc. Should the test
step offer more detail on how to react to or report test suite results?

Those are regression tests, so test against the results of the latest releases.
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[Kirinn via fpc-devel]

Post by Florian Klämpfl via fpc-devel

We have placed the first release candidate of the Free Pascal
Compiler version 3.2.2 on our ftp servers.
You can help improve the upcoming 3.2.2 release by downloading and
testing this release. If you want you can report what you have done
here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Testers_3.2.2 or in the maillist.

Test step 11 is "Run testsuite". The last time we were testing a
relese candidate, the test suite had a small number of failures,
but to a casual tester it was not clear what to do about it; which
tests are expected to be failing, which are dealbreakers, etc.
Should the test step offer more detail on how to react to or report
test suite results?

Those are regression tests, so test against the results of the latest
releases. _______________________________________________

Great, thanks. Testing ongoing.

I'm seeing frequent Access Violations when running programs of any
complexity that have been compiled with "-B -O- -Oodfa,deadstore"...
but this seems to have been happening already in 3.2.0, so not a
regression. I don't see a bug for this yet, so I'll try to come up with
a minimal reproducible. We'll need to warn users about this if it can't
be fixed for 3.2.2.

~Kirinn
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[Florian Klämpfl via fpc-devel]

Post by Kirinn via fpc-devel

Post by Florian Klämpfl via fpc-devel

We have placed the first release candidate of the Free Pascal
Compiler version 3.2.2 on our ftp servers.
You can help improve the upcoming 3.2.2 release by downloading and
testing this release. If you want you can report what you have done
here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Testers_3.2.2 or in the maillist.

Test step 11 is "Run testsuite". The last time we were testing a
relese candidate, the test suite had a small number of failures,
but to a casual tester it was not clear what to do about it; which
tests are expected to be failing, which are dealbreakers, etc.
Should the test step offer more detail on how to react to or report
test suite results?

Those are regression tests, so test against the results of the latest
releases. _______________________________________________

Great, thanks. Testing ongoing.
I'm seeing frequent Access Violations when running programs of any
complexity that have been compiled with "-B -O- -Oodfa,deadstore"...
but this seems to have been happening already in 3.2.0, so not a
regression. I don't see a bug for this yet, so I'll try to come up with
a minimal reproducible. We'll need to warn users about this if it can't
be fixed for 3.2.2.

-Oodeadstore is not really reliable yet.