Sorry to ask this yet again but I keep forgetting or remembering wrong. I thought this was a one time error that was fixed but I'm still getting different error formats with the trunk (as of today) vs 3.0.4.

Can anyone please confirm which it the correct format I should rely on?

Ryans-MacBook-Pro-2:~ ryanjoseph$ fpc -vbr /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.4 [2018/09/30] for x86_64 Copyright (c) 1993-2017 by Florian Klaempfl and others Target OS: Darwin for x86_64
Compiling /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas:6: error: 1: Identifier not found "f" /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas:7: error: 4: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping error: Compilation aborted
Ryans-MacBook-Pro-2:~ ryanjoseph$ /usr/local/lib/fpc/3.3.1/ppcx64 -vbr /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas Free Pascal Compiler version 3.3.1 [2020/04/11] for x86_64 Copyright (c) 1993-2020 by Florian Klaempfl and others Target OS: Darwin for x86_64
Compiling /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas:6:1: error: Identifier not found "f" /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas:7:4: error: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping error: Compilation aborted

Regards,
Ryan Joseph

This is what I get:

araminta: ~ >fpc -vbr ti.pp
/Users/michael/ti.pp:8: error: 6: Incompatible type for arg no. 1: Got "ShortInt", expected "{Open} Array Of SmallInt" /Users/michael/ti.pp:9: error: 4: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping error: Compilation aborted
Error: /usr/local/bin/ppcx64 returned an error exitcode araminta: ~ >ppcx64-3.0.4 -vbr ti.pp
/Users/michael/ti.pp:8: error: 6: Incompatible type for arg no. 1: Got "ShortInt", expected "{Open} Array Of SmallInt" /Users/michael/ti.pp:9: error: 4: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping error: Compilation aborted

My guess is you have a config file lying around that causes this to look different (-Fr option?), or you have a custom-made errore.msg file built-in.

Try -var to see why.

Michael.

On Apr 11, 2020, at 1:17 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: My guess is you have a config file lying around that causes this to look different (-Fr option?), or you have a custom-made errore.msg file built-in.

Interesting, so I overrode the default format in the trunk somehow. I can't find any -Fr options but who knows what file I may have corrupted.

What's the best way to get back to the default format then? At some point I thought the format changed so I altered a bunch of my regex patterns in various areas and it's causing me many headaches.

Regards,
Ryan Joseph

Can it be you changed the compiler itself ?

What's the best way to get back to the default format then? At some point I thought the format changed so I altered a bunch of my regex patterns in various areas and it's causing me many headaches.

if -va does not give you a clue, try compiling with -n and specify all paths on the command-line, see where that leads you. if you get the strange behaviour still, it means the compiler itself was modified.

Michael.

Found the cause:
https://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=43769

As this is the error output when rhide/GCC compatible error output is given (-vr), it probably did not work correctly with tools that rely on the order before that change.

Regards,
Sven

I fixed this for trunk. You can very easily test and see what gcc outputs to verify what's correct.

On Apr 11, 2020, at 8:12 PM, Florian Klämpfl wrote: I fixed this for trunk. You can very easily test and see what gcc outputs to verify what's correct.

Thanks, I could swear this was a bug that was already fixed but I'll rebuild the compiler tomorrow and see if it went away.

Regards,
Ryan Joseph

On Apr 11, 2020, at 9:50 PM, Ryan Joseph wrote: Thanks, I could swear this was a bug that was already fixed but I'll rebuild the compiler tomorrow and see if it went away.

I just did svn up and got r44689, rebuilt the compiler but I still get the same error format. Was it supposed to be changed?

Ryans-MacBook-Pro-2:fpc ryanjoseph$ /usr/local/lib/fpc/3.3.1/ppcx64 -vbr /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas Free Pascal Compiler version 3.3.1 [2020/04/12] for x86_64 Copyright (c) 1993-2020 by Florian Klaempfl and others Target OS: Darwin for x86_64
Compiling /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas:6:1: error: Identifier not found "f" /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/Various/stratch_pad.pas:7:4: error: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping error: Compilation aborted

Regards,
Ryan Joseph

On Apr 12, 2020, at 11:16 AM, Ryan Joseph wrote: I just did svn up and got r44689, rebuilt the compiler but I still get the same error format. Was it supposed to be changed?

ok, I think we're confused here. Just actually tested gcc and got this format:

/Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/C++/Tests/test:10:6: error: expected expression

This means that FPC 3.0.4 is giving the wrong format and I guess we're stuck with that like it is. That means trunk is and was fine like it is.

Regards,
Ryan Joseph

Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal schrieb am
So., 12. Apr. 2020, 08:53:

Correct. That's what Florian had fixed. We'll just have to make sure that revision is merged to 3.2 as well...

Regards,
Sven

Okay, I merged that change, so the final 3.2 will use the fixed error output as well.

Regards,
Sven