Re: [fpc-devel] FPC_REQUIRES_PROPER_ALIGNMENT

2004-10-16 Thread Olle Raab
04-10-16 19.40, skrev Chess Player följande: > If packed records are such a problem, don't use packed records. We're not > programming for computers with 640kb of RAM. "packed" is sometime used to make the binary representation of the record more predictable, which you might need if you mix fpc

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC_REQUIRES_PROPER_ALIGNMENT

2004-10-16 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Marc Weustink wrote: At 00:15 14-10-2004, Florian Klaempfl wrote: Marc Weustink wrote: At 16:38 13-10-2004, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 12 okt 2004, at 22:12, Marc Weustink wrote: M:> Is a sigbus catchable so that you can read the data and continue as if nothing happened (or is that something at OS leve

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC_REQUIRES_PROPER_ALIGNMENT

2004-10-16 Thread Chess Player
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Re: [fpc-devel] FPC_REQUIRES_PROPER_ALIGNMENT

2004-10-16 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 16 Oct 2004, at 18:41, Olle Raab wrote: Some time ago Florian did mention to add emulation of 80-bit Extended typ, to make it possible to create e. g. powerpc-intel-cross-compilers... It was needed because Extended constant expressions is to be evaluated during compile time. Actually, I though

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC_REQUIRES_PROPER_ALIGNMENT

2004-10-16 Thread Olle Raab
04-10-13 16.38, skrev Jonas Maebe följande: > We also don't emulate the 80-bit > extended type on processors which only have a 64-bit double precision > fpu. We also don't emulate endianess. Portability has a lot of > pitfalls. Some time ago Florian did mention to add emulation of 80-bit Extended

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC_REQUIRES_PROPER_ALIGNMENT

2004-10-16 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 13 Oct 2004, at 23:02, Marc Weustink wrote: We also don't emulate endianess. Portability has a lot of pitfalls. In a matter of fact, you do support endianness. As an enduser I don't have to take care ot the phisical representation of an integer for instance. An integer and $FF is still a value

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC_REQUIRES_PROPER_ALIGNMENT

2004-10-16 Thread Marc Weustink
At 00:15 14-10-2004, Florian Klaempfl wrote: Marc Weustink wrote: At 16:38 13-10-2004, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 12 okt 2004, at 22:12, Marc Weustink wrote: M:> Is a sigbus catchable so that you can read the data and continue as if nothing happened (or is that something at OS level) That is normally