[fpc-devel] OpenBSD compiler

2011-10-04 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Hi, I noted that Pierre is updating the OpenBSD port.  Does anyone knows where can I find a bootstraping compiler for this platform?.   Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://list

Re: [fpc-devel] utf-8 package in Free Pascal

2011-10-04 Thread Michael Schnell
On 10/04/2011 01:02 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: I wonder when Lazarus will be able to follow and use this string type for the complete library. The LCL will use one unique encoding, most probably UTF-8 as the only losless Unicode representation. This means that strings with different e

Re: [fpc-devel] utf-8 package in Free Pascal

2011-10-04 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Michael Schnell schrieb: On 10/04/2011 10:59 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Yes. Each string will have a codepage identifier associated with it. if, during an assign operation, a difference exists, a conversion will occur. (there are of course some exceptions) GREAT ! Not really :-( I wo

Re: [fpc-devel] utf-8 package in Free Pascal

2011-10-04 Thread Michael Schnell
On 10/04/2011 11:59 AM, Sven Barth wrote: The earliest point is when the next big release after 2.6 is released (note: I don't mean 2.6.x here, more a 2.8). As 2.6 is currently prepared you can estimate how long that will take. I see. ;-) Unfortunately Delphi is way ahead on this behalf, b

Re: [fpc-devel] utf-8 package in Free Pascal

2011-10-04 Thread Sven Barth
Am 04.10.2011 11:19, schrieb Michael Schnell: On 10/04/2011 10:59 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Yes. Each string will have a codepage identifier associated with it. if, during an assign operation, a difference exists, a conversion will occur. (there are of course some exceptions) GREAT ! I

Re: [fpc-devel] utf-8 package in Free Pascal

2011-10-04 Thread Michael Schnell
On 10/04/2011 10:59 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Yes. Each string will have a codepage identifier associated with it. if, during an assign operation, a difference exists, a conversion will occur. (there are of course some exceptions) GREAT ! I wonder when Lazarus will be able to follow an

Re: [fpc-devel] utf-8 package in Free Pascal

2011-10-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Michael Schnell wrote: On 10/03/2011 11:41 AM, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: Currently, hard work is being put in the unicode string and codepage string routines in the RTL. Do I understand correctly that this is the "New String" string handling (to be optionally,

Re: [fpc-devel] utf-8 package in Free Pascal

2011-10-04 Thread Michael Schnell
On 10/03/2011 11:41 AM, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: Currently, hard work is being put in the unicode string and codepage string routines in the RTL. Do I understand correctly that this is the "New String" string handling (to be optionally, by default or exclusively used) ? Do I und

RE: [fpc-devel] New Windows gdb-binary

2011-10-04 Thread Pierre Free Pascal
> -Message d'origine- > De : fpc-devel-boun...@lists.freepascal.org [mailto:fpc-devel- > boun...@lists.freepascal.org] De la part de Joost van der Sluis > Envoyé : lundi 3 octobre 2011 16:24 > À : FPC developers' list > Objet : Re: [fpc-devel] New Windows gdb-binary > > On Sat, 2011-10-0

Re: [fpc-devel] utf-8 package in Free Pascal

2011-10-04 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Alexander Klenin wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 08:48, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: There is, again, a continuum between careful development and stangation. While acknowledging great work that FPC team has done on the former, I'd venture to say that is came uncomfortably clo

RE: [fpc-devel] New Windows gdb-binary

2011-10-04 Thread Pierre Free Pascal
> > Use this new macro: > > > > $ cvs diff -u -p gdbtypes.h > > Index: gdbtypes.h > > === > > RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/gdbtypes.h,v > > retrieving revision 1.153 > > diff -u -p -r1.153 gdbtypes.h > > --- gdbtypes.h 5 Jul 2011 13:36