[fpc-pascal]Amiga snapshot (was heap and stack size )

2003-01-24 Thread Carl Eric Codere
> Could you make lha archive of your current fpc amiga > version and place it > somewhe in net as I didn't > succeed to crosscompile my own. Greetings, I've finally done the script for creating snapshots for the amiga target. I'll upload a an amiga snapshot this monday. Since this is

[fpc-pascal]Test (please ignore)

2003-01-24 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Apologies for this little test (I got no mails from the 14th) ___ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

[fpc-pascal][Fwd: Re: [wdosx] Future of WDOSX]

2003-01-24 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi, In the list of discussion about the WDOSX DOS extender, this interesting question has been raised. It is about legal issues with the LGPL license and the linkage to propietary code. As FreePascal has been directly mentioned, and I am subscribed to both lists, and quite interested in the to

[fpc-pascal]1. Mandrake & 2. FPC with WINE and crosscompiling

2003-01-24 Thread Holger Peterrs
Hi, 1. At home I'm working with FreePascal for Windows. But in extra curricular lessons, I work with Linux (Mandrake). I tried to install FreePascal for Linux on this comuter, but it didn't work. For example there is no IDE and if I start fpc in the console, there is no output. Is it because I am

[fpc-pascal]graphiX & NVIDIA

2003-01-24 Thread Peter Beisel
compiler: 1.0.6 target: go32v2 OS: a) DOS 6.22; b) Win98SE I've got serious problems running graphix with a NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go 64MB graphics adapter on my notebook. Has anybody some hints?? Regards Peter ___ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED

[fpc-pascal]TurboPower

2003-01-24 Thread Andreas K. Foerster
Announcement from : TurboPower discontinues retail business Company announces sweeping open source initiative Colorado Springs - TurboPower Software Company today announces their immediate withd

[fpc-pascal]graphiX & NVIDIA

2003-01-24 Thread Peter Beisel
compiler: 1.0.6 target: go32v2 OS: a) DOS 6.22; b) Win98SE I've got serious problems running graphix with a NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go 64MB graphics adapter on my notebook. Has anybody some hints?? Regards Peter ___ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED

[fpc-pascal]Units for Windows

2003-01-24 Thread Hans Mårtensson
According to the FreePascal Documentation the Windows unit includes the API calls for the Windows OS as doucumented in Borland's Win32 help file. But not all of them. I discovered another unit, named mmsystem, that took care of the functions to be used in connection with the sound card. With this

[fpc-pascal]Dynamic Arrays (Pointers)

2003-01-24 Thread James Mills
Hi, I'm using FPC 1.0.4 Would someone be so kind as to show me an example of using dynamic arrays of an object, creating new objects on the fly in code and disposing of them when they're no longer needed. Use of this would be in a irc services program I'm porting to linux from delphi (windows), i

[fpc-pascal]1. FPC and Mandrake 2. Crosscompiling

2003-01-24 Thread Holger Peters
Hi, 1. At home I'm working with FreePascal for Windows. But in extra curricular lessons, I work with Linux (Mandrake). I tried to install FreePascal for Linux on this comuter, but it didn't work. For example there is no IDE and if I start fpc in the console, there is no output. Is it because I a

[fpc-pascal]64bit constant

2003-01-24 Thread Stefan Ziegenbalg
Hello, how can I define a 64 bit constant, e.g. const csr_register_base = $f000; This would produce: csr.pas(5,35) Error: Invalid integer expression Regards Stefan -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sziegenbalg.de http://www.simage.org

Re: [fpc-pascal]64bit constant

2003-01-24 Thread Jonas Maebe
On vrijdag, jan 24, 2003, at 12:23 Europe/Brussels, Stefan Ziegenbalg wrote: how can I define a 64 bit constant, e.g. const csr_register_base = $f000; You can only do that in version 1.1 and later (see development section of the website for beta snapshots). Jonas _

Re: [fpc-pascal]TurboPower

2003-01-24 Thread memsom
> Announcement from : > > > > TurboPower discontinues retail business > .. > The process of preparing the libraries for release to open source is > already underway, and the current goal is to

[fpc-pascal]SetUid

2003-01-24 Thread Balázs Csaba
Hello masters! I am new on maillist. I have got a question. A cannot find function called setuid() like in c++. In the source of compiler/units a have found a section where the linux like function declared. There is a contant called "syscall_nr_setuid", but it is NOT used in any function. A can de

[fpc-pascal]FPDoc reference manual?

2003-01-24 Thread Preben Mikael Bohn
Hi all, I have just tried to compile FPDoc, and it went fine except that I had to change the makefile to add a few more include-dirs than were in it as default. Anyway, I am now looking at the reference manual located at http://www.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/projects/fpdoc/doc/fp

Re: [fpc-pascal]Dynamic Arrays (Pointers)

2003-01-24 Thread memsom
> Would someone be so kind as to show me an example of using dynamic > arrays of an object, creating new objects on the fly in code and > disposing of them when they're no longer needed. Use of this would be in > a irc services program I'm porting to linux from delphi (windows), ie: > new nick join

Re: [fpc-pascal]FPDoc reference manual?

2003-01-24 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Preben Mikael Bohn wrote: > Hi all, I have just tried to compile FPDoc, and it went fine except that I had > to change the makefile to add a few more include-dirs than were in it as > default. Anyway, I am now looking at the reference manual located at > >http://www.freepas

Re: [fpc-pascal]SetUid; PARANOIA

2003-01-24 Thread Anton Tichawa
hello, csaba! here you are: // ... uses Linux; // ... function SetUID(UID: Longint): Longint; var Regs: SysCallRegs; begin Regs.Reg2 := UID; SetUID := SysCall(SysCall_nr_getuid, Regs); end; //... written by me some months ago. a question to the fpc development team: i'm slowly getting

Re: [fpc-pascal]SetUid

2003-01-24 Thread Marco van de Voort
> > I am new on maillist. I have got a question. A cannot find function called > setuid() like in c++. > In the source of compiler/units a have found a section > where the linux like function declared. There is a contant called > "syscall_nr_setuid", but it is NOT used in any function. A can decl

Re: [fpc-pascal]SetUid

2003-01-24 Thread Marco van de Voort
> I am new on maillist. I have got a question. A cannot find function called > setuid() like in c++. In the source of compiler/units a have found a section > where the linux like function declared. There is a contant called > "syscall_nr_setuid", but it is NOT used in any function. A can declare a

Re: [fpc-pascal]SetUid; PARANOIA

2003-01-24 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Anton Tichawa wrote: > hello, csaba! > > here you are: > > > // ... > uses > Linux; > // ... > function SetUID(UID: Longint): Longint; > var > Regs: SysCallRegs; > begin > Regs.Reg2 := UID; > SetUID := SysCall(SysCall_nr_getuid, Regs); > end; > //... > > > written

Re: [fpc-pascal]SetUid; PARANOIA

2003-01-24 Thread Marco van de Voort
> here you are: > > > // ... > uses > Linux; > // ... > function SetUID(UID: Longint): Longint; > var > Regs: SysCallRegs; > begin > Regs.Reg2 := UID; > SetUID := SysCall(SysCall_nr_getuid, Regs); > end; > //... > > > written by me some months ago. > > a question to the fpc developm

Re: [fpc-pascal]SetUid; PARANOIA

2003-01-24 Thread Marco van de Voort
> On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Anton Tichawa wrote: > > > Regs.Reg2 := UID; > > SetUID := SysCall(SysCall_nr_getuid, Regs); > > end; > > //... > > > > written by me some months ago. > > > > a question to the fpc development team: i'm slowly getting paranoid, because > > access to hw, i/o and system se

Re: [fpc-pascal]SetUid; PARANOIA

2003-01-24 Thread Anton Tichawa
hello, list! On Friday 24 January 2003 15:22, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > No particular reason. It wasn't needed at the time of the linux port > It is (or should be) implemented in the new 1.1 series. > thanks .. this makes me feel better. but isn't it strange that google finds not a single

Re: [fpc-pascal]FPDoc reference manual?

2003-01-24 Thread Preben Mikael Bohn
Hi Michael > The needed packages are in the docs/packages repository in CVS. > But I can send a .pdf version if you want. That would be great! :-) Best regards Preben -- Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive. ___ fpc-pasca

[fpc-pascal]Execution speed

2003-01-24 Thread Mark Emerson
Now that the list seems to be working again...I'll try posting this again: I am wondering why our new PC is not executing our fpc-compiled program very much faster than the old one. It was really quite a disappointment: Old PC: Laptop, Intel PII, 300 MHz, 64 MB. Execution times: 8:30, 2:30 (min:s

RE: [fpc-pascal]Execution speed

2003-01-24 Thread Lee, John
Goes w/o saying that program perf depends on many things, but typically if one runs a processor intensive (no i/o) benchmark eg an fft (fp) or a large integer calculation on processors of different speeds the time is about proportional to the proc speed and possibly the memory speed (a bit) if the

[fpc-pascal]FPC 1.0.6 and open arrays

2003-01-24 Thread Jilani Khaldi
Hi All, Does FPC support open arrays? I get an error compiling something like this: type m = array of integer; but it works fine if I declare it inside a procedure or a function: procedure OpenArray(var m: array of integer); Thanks! -- Jilani Khaldi http://www.jilani.net

[fpc-pascal]Run Time Error codes

2003-01-24 Thread Eduardo Morras
Hello: Does anyone knows what means the next error codes: 998, 313. And where find information about the applications exit code? I'm under win32 platform, fpc 1.0.6 using gdb as debugger TIA Alien.org contacted...waiting