I installed FPC 3.2.0 textmode IDE on my office PC (windows 10 ver 1809) a while ago. As of lately however, I experience crashes quite frequently during the build process of even tiny and completely harmless programs, e.g. little routines I need to test; without memory allocation, pointers, threading etc.
The message is usually of sorts
sysinitpas.pp(12,1): Compilation raised exception internally
Error: Compiler exited
Error: Access violation
Sometimes the IDE keeps running, sometimes it terminates with a signal 291, occasionally it simply dies and goes back to the shell, occasionally I need to kill the shell. The line number (12,1) appears random, it may be any other number as well e.g. (147,1).
After re-starting the IDE, the problem is gone, but will reappear sooner or later, like a lottery game.
Anybody else experienced this issue ? I have a suspicion that it may be related to other processes utilising resources on the machine, maybe virus scanner, WMI provider host, UAC file locking, whatever. On an office machine, a lot is going on in the background above and beyond what windows itself does.