Hi all,

Since at least three monthes a bug pops in and pops out in an erratic way while running dostest.bat after a new compilation of a gpc snapshot under djgpp-2.95.2 (nothing to do with the recent discussion about 2.95.3: I have reverted to 2.95.2). It is in one or both of the test programs nicola1.pas and/or nicola2.pas. On the screen (and in the make.out logfile) I have:

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Running the GPC Test Suite. This may take a while...

NOTE, if you've used the Test Suite before: To get the long output format, run `make pascal.check-long' now.

TEST fjf165a.pas: SKIPPED: only for German locale TEST longr2.pas: SKIPPED: no LongReal math routines available TEST nicola1.pas: failed: ./nicola1.pas:7: referenced type `T2' undefined ./nicola1.pas:7: Internal compiler error in `handle_forward_pointers', at gpc-de cl.c:9884 Please submit a full bug report to the GPC mailing list gpc@gnu.de. See URL:http://home.pages.de/~GNU-Pascal/todo.html for details. TEST nicola2.pas: failed: ./nicola2.pas:4: referenced type `A' undefined ./nicola2.pas:4: Internal compiler error in `handle_forward_pointers', at gpc-de cl.c:9884 Please submit a full bug report to the GPC mailing list gpc@gnu.de. See URL:http://home.pages.de/~GNU-Pascal/todo.html for details.

# of GPC tests 1302 # of GPC tests passed 1298 # of GPC tests skipped 2 # of GPC tests failed 2

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If I run the compilation directly I see that this corresponds to a SIGSEGV error

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C:\djgpp\gnu\gcc-2.952\gcc\p\test>gpc --autobuild -g -O3 -Wall -Werror nicola1.pas nicola1.pas:7: referenced type `T2' undefined Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV Page fault at eip=0015d86d, error=0004 eax=0000007f ebx=ffe305e0 ecx=00000000 edx=ffe527e4 esi=ffe30574 edi=89000001 ebp=00389d30 esp=00389d08 program=C:\DJGPP\LIB\GCC-LIB\DJGPP\2.952\GPC1.EXE cs: sel=0117 base=83c03000 limit=ffe5dfff ds: sel=011f base=83c03000 limit=ffe5dfff es: sel=011f base=83c03000 limit=ffe5dfff fs: sel=00f7 base=000260d0 limit=0000ffff gs: sel=012f base=00000000 limit=0010ffff ss: sel=011f base=83c03000 limit=ffe5dfff App stack: [0038a3a4..0020a3a4] Exceptn stack: [0020a2b0..00208370]

Call frame traceback EIPs: 0x0015d86d 0x001a5bbe 0x0013bad9 0x0013f967 0x001caee2

C:\djgpp\gnu\gcc-2.952\gcc\p\test>gpc --autobuild -g -O3 -Wall -Werror nicola2.pas nicola2.pas:4: referenced type `A' undefined Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV Page fault at eip=0015d86d, error=0004 eax=0000007f ebx=ffe305e0 ecx=00000000 edx=ffe523f0 esi=ffe30574 edi=068b4625 ebp=00389d30 esp=00389d08 program=C:\DJGPP\LIB\GCC-LIB\DJGPP\2.952\GPC1.EXE cs: sel=0117 base=83c03000 limit=ffe5dfff ds: sel=011f base=83c03000 limit=ffe5dfff es: sel=011f base=83c03000 limit=ffe5dfff fs: sel=00f7 base=000260d0 limit=0000ffff gs: sel=012f base=00000000 limit=0010ffff ss: sel=011f base=83c03000 limit=ffe5dfff App stack: [0038a3a4..0020a3a4] Exceptn stack: [0020a2b0..00208370]

Call frame traceback EIPs: 0x0015d86d 0x001a5bbe 0x0013bad9 0x0013f967 0x001caee2

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Such a bug which appears and disappears without any relationship to the changes in gpc looks like a wandering pointer problem. It may be completely unseen on other systems.

Hope this helps

Maurice