[fpc-devel] Unsubscribing myself

2009-10-24 Thread Aleš Katona
Just wanted to post before doing it, I'm unsubscribing from Lazarus and FPC mailing lists (except core) for now. I get tons of msgs daily I no longer read (except about lNet and parts of FPC I am responsible for). I've slowed down a bit on the OSS side (mainly due to girlfriend and job) so gett

Re: [fpc-devel] Is lnet compilation working?

2009-09-11 Thread Aleš Katona
Thanks for the patch, Micha will look into it. As for the absolute, I'll update lNet in fppkg when 0.6.3 goes out (hopefuly soon). Ales ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] Is lnet compilation working?

2009-09-10 Thread Aleš Katona
Fixed, thanks for reporting. ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] Is lnet compilation working?

2009-09-08 Thread Aleš Katona
What did you change? Btw. the forward declaration bug in windows was fixed in lNet trunk, so windows users can use it with fpc fixes branch at least... (didn't try fpc trunk). NOTE: IPv6 will only work for unix atm. ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] Is lnet compilation working?

2009-09-05 Thread Aleš Katona
On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:30:58 -0700 ABorka wrote: > Hi, > > Trying to send emails and load web pages from Lazarus/FPC programs. > > Since the latest Indy cannot be compiled and used in Lazarus/Freepascal > at the moment (it seems at least so), I have tried to start using lNet. > > However, it

Re: [fpc-devel] Whole program optimisation

2008-12-11 Thread Aleš Katona
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:27:18 +0100 Jonas Maebe wrote: > Hello, > > I've just merged the whole program optimisation branch into trunk. For > information on what it currently does and how to use it, see > http://wiki.freepascal.org/Whole_Program_Optimization > > > Jonas Let me be the first t

Re: [fpc-devel] Is LNet planned to be included in a fpc release?

2008-12-08 Thread Aleš Katona
On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:05:54 +0100 Darius Blaszyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's strange to not be included in FPC already, as the fppkg tool > depends on lnet itself. Look under utils/fppkg. > > Darius > Aye, but that's a "stable lnet" version being used for fppkg as backup in case a gi

Re: [fpc-devel] Why is FPC so self-contained ?

2008-11-04 Thread Aleš Katona
llvm is interresting to say the least. I experimented with it a bit but never got to do anything serious. A llvm backend is surely doable especially if you can get an AST out of FPC. -- Aleš Katona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ fpc-devel maillist

Re: [fpc-devel] GetAppConfigFile

2008-10-04 Thread Aleš Katona
Dňa So, 2008-10-04 o 12:23 +0200, Micha Nelissen napísal: > Hi, > > Why is there a parameter to GetAppConfigFile? I'd suggest something like: > > function GetAppConfigFile: string; > begin >{ first look for user specific config file } >Result := GetAppConfigFile(false); >if FileExists

Re: [fpc-devel] MSG_NOSIGNAL in Mac OS X

2008-09-20 Thread Aleš Katona
Dňa Pi, 2008-09-19 o 19:31 +0100, Jonas Maebe napísal: > On 19 Sep 2008, at 11:16, Aleš Katona wrote: > > > All you need to do is break a send, make a program which repeats sends > > and kill it in the middle of one. If the other end exits with SIGPIPE > > we've

Re: [fpc-devel] MSG_NOSIGNAL in Mac OS X

2008-09-19 Thread Aleš Katona
Dňa Pi, 2008-09-19 o 10:45 +0200, Marco van de Voort napísal: > In our previous episode, Aleš Katona said: > > Anyway if it's really there and tested, it should be added to the Darwin > > unxsockh.inc. > > As Jonas said, testing is non-trivial, since it is about

Re: [fpc-devel] MSG_NOSIGNAL in Mac OS X

2008-09-19 Thread Aleš Katona
Dňa Št, 2008-09-18 o 13:49 +0200, Marco van de Voort napísal: > In our previous episode, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho said: > > The sockets unit for Mac OS X (FPC 2.2.2) does not contain > > MSG_NOSIGNAL, which is necessary for the correct functioning of the > > Synapse library. > > > > I modifyed

Re: [fpc-devel] fpdoc and fv

2008-08-25 Thread Aleš Katona
> In Delphi I simply type a word (i.e. "TForm") in an empty line and press > F1 to get help on TForm. This is the usual way I learn about new > components I'd like to use. This does not seem to work for me in Lazarus. This works perfectly for me in Lazarus. Perhaps I missed something but unless

Re: [fpc-devel] a patch for fpioctl

2007-09-29 Thread Aleš Katona
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the patch. It was missing some parts (FPC_USE_LIBC and ossysc.inc needed to be changes too). I fixed it in r8676. Ales > Hi, > > I found a difference between the POSIX and the BSD implementation of > ioctl, and the FPC fpioctrl is set as th

[fpc-devel] Another XML bug

2007-03-15 Thread Aleš Katona
Sending as attachment. The program just reads 'Options/Video/ResX' and writes to console, then tries to change it in the file. Neither GetValue nor SetValue work. GetValue always gets defaults, SetValue does nothing. Ales tt.tar.gz Description: application/compressed-tar ___

Re: [fpc-devel] merge of revision 6749

2007-03-15 Thread Aleš Katona
On Št, 2007-03-15 at 16:35 +0300, Sergei Gorelkin wrote: > Thursday, March 15, 2007, 2:56:10 PM, Sergei wrote: > > Ok, a single '@' was missing. I had fixed the bug and attached the patch > to bug tracker entry. Sorry for the late reaction; it may be better to > notify me directly of such issues.

Re: [fpc-devel] graph module

2007-03-10 Thread Aleš Katona
> > OK, the conclusion is to implement sdlgraph in pascal on top of JEDI-SDL. > So, I will work with it. I will finish my study activities (I was ill 2 > weeks so this week (after Sunday) I will clear my debts) and then will > implement it. > Daniël was talking about 2.2 FPC release, what

RE: [fpc-devel] Freepascal 2.0.4 made it to Ubuntu Feisty

2007-02-15 Thread Aleš Katona
On Št, 2007-02-15 at 08:37 +, peter green wrote: > FINALLY > > looks like they've built and uploaded the fpc source that was sitting in edgy > too > > only i386 and amd64 though by the looks of things not powerpc > > i wonder what they will do about updating it though, getting a non-autobui

RE: Re[2]: [fpc-devel] Some compiler changes...

2007-01-23 Thread Aleš Katona
rg > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel -- Aleš Katona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Toto je digitálne podpísaná časť správy ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] two changes to fcl 2.0.5

2007-01-11 Thread Aleš Katona
> I don't see the use. We're preparing to release 2.2. > > In March we do a code freeze and start the release process. > > Michael. I think the use is something like january, february, march and possibly april. That's 4 months of bugs with no choice but 2.1.1 Rather ackward if you ask me. A

RE: [fpc-devel] Incompatibilities between win32 windows unit andwince windows unit

2007-01-07 Thread Aleš Katona
> one big problem with this sort of thing is that you can pass anything to an > untyped const parameter *INCLUDING* a pointer, so if you change something > from taking an untyped pointer to taking an untyped const parameter you are > going to cause strange bugs for users. > I'm not saying tha

Re: [fpc-devel] Incompatibilities between win32 windows unit and wince windows unit

2007-01-07 Thread Aleš Katona
On Ne, 2007-01-07 at 00:23 -0200, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > Hello, > > I am porting fpgfx to Windows CE. During this work I noticed a lot of > incompatibilities between win32 windows unit and wince windows unit. > Trivial stuff, like a parameter is var on win32, but is a pointer on > wi

Re: [fpc-devel] LNet removal from FCL

2007-01-04 Thread Aleš Katona
On Št, 2007-01-04 at 23:15 +0100, Joost van der Sluis wrote: > I don't know if I'm really happy with this. lNet was a usefull addition > to the fcl. Now the fcl doesn't have any tcp/ip-components. > > I had some plans to write a new sqldb-connection based on lNet. That's > became difficult now. I

[fpc-devel] LNet removal from FCL

2007-01-04 Thread Aleš Katona
if someone had 2.1.1 with lnet in FCL etc. I think I'll add lNet as a package later when the new packaging system is working. -- Aleš Katona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Toto je digitálne podpísaná časť správy ___ f

Re: [fpc-devel] LGPL vs MPL

2006-12-26 Thread Aleš Katona
Let's not open a can of worms here, the truth is we can't change the license anyhow, there are too many pieces by too many contributors who would have to agree with the change in the first place. IMHO point the people who need more info to FAQ and be done with it. Ales __

[fpc-devel] fdRead?

2006-12-16 Thread Aleš Katona
d need to decide how to respond. Thanks -- Aleš Katona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Toto je digitálne podpísaná časť správy ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] syncobjs unit

2006-11-27 Thread Aleš Katona
> > I can't find any such functions in unix/cthreads.pp (nor in the > system-dependent pthread include files), nor in win/systhrd.inc > > Who knows, perhaps syllable has such :) Point was, I think we should try to make threading more future proof this time. I'll try to make a list of requir

Re: [fpc-devel] syncobjs unit

2006-11-27 Thread Aleš Katona
> I'd use a pointer, ptrint or ptruint in those cases. They naturally > grow with the cpu bitsize. Sure and when it's a size_t expected? Perhaps we should use unions.. ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal

Re: [fpc-devel] syncobjs unit

2006-11-27 Thread Aleš Katona
> I also think this is the right way. If you specify OS specific return codes > per threadmanager, this will lead to unnecssary breakage. Return codes are one thing, argument another. What are we going to do about those? Eg: see "ExitCode" argument. It's a "dword" but int is expected as well. Th

Re: [fpc-devel] syncobjs unit

2006-11-27 Thread Aleš Katona
One solution is basicly to use a TThreadID kind of thing for all arguments and return types. The problems with this are: 1. if one OS has multiple threading backends with multiple types, what then? (ifdef isn't enough here) 2. who is going to check all platforms all usages of ThreadManager and fi

Re: [fpc-devel] syncobjs unit

2006-11-27 Thread Aleš Katona
> > What exactly is the "ThreadManager problem" ? > There are type differences in return types and arguments of many functions. For example, ThreadManager.SuspendThread returns DWord in all OSes and platforms (64bit 32bit) but eg: in cthreads we use: Result := pthread_kill().. pthread_kill re

Re: [fpc-devel] syncobjs unit

2006-11-27 Thread Aleš Katona
> Does the patch work for you ? If so, I'll apply it to FCL. It was planned to > do something similar, since when syncobjs was implemented, the TThreadManager > did not yet exist. Now that it does exist, syncobjs can be implemented on top > of it. It might be perhaps better to wait until the whol

[fpc-devel] 2.1.1 borked

2006-11-25 Thread Aleš Katona
latest 2.1.1 borks with sysutils.inc(309,44) Error: Identifier not found "SiconvError" I added siconverror to the errors list but didn't commit yet. Is there a special formating for this error or just "conversion error" ? Ales ___ fpc-devel maillist -

Re: [fpc-devel] novel netware

2006-11-24 Thread Aleš Katona
I'm going to use the netware/winsock.pp AF_ and PF_ stuff for now. Not sure if it's correct or not, so if you know it's not please tell me. Ales ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-d

[fpc-devel] novel netware

2006-11-24 Thread Aleš Katona
Hey. I need someone with access to novell netware to tell me the AF_ and PF_ values from this platform. If you can send me the header file where it is (not sure on this platform) and I'll update fpc so it compiles in there again. Sorry for the brakeage but all the AF_ and PF_ values in all platfor

Re: [fpc-devel] internal profiler 2

2006-09-08 Thread Aleš Katona
This looks promising. I'll look at the code when I get some free time and see if I'm able to do anything in this department. Ales > If it needs to be added this more generic AOP is the best solution. > AOP also allows easy tracing on the fly with start/end of procedure > infos. We can add a sw

Re: [fpc-devel] Non-blocking sockets on Mac OS X

2006-09-07 Thread Aleš Katona
On Št, 2006-09-07 at 12:52 +, Robert Reimiller wrote: > Having some trouble porting some code from Delphi to FreePascal running > on MAC OS X (power pc). On Delphi to set a socket non-blocking I would > normally do: > >flag := 1 ; >ioctl (cpath, FIONBIO, flag) ; > > However th

Re: [fpc-devel] internal profiler 2

2006-09-07 Thread Aleš Katona
> Ensure that you compile _everything_ with -gv only. No -g, no -gl. > _ yes I just did but now I get an exception in forms.pp (only if callgrind ./project1, running standalone works) Generaly tho, we don't have an all-platform profiler. Ales ___ fpc

[fpc-devel] internal profiler 2

2006-09-07 Thread Aleš Katona
Today I tried to find the reason behind Lazarus GTK2 slowdowns by using profilers. After both failed me (callgrind crashed with stabs info error and gprof reported things which didn't get called {writeln was in to test}) I tought it might not be such a bad idea to make a simple internal (ala -ghl s

Re: [fpc-devel] Propose: change TComponent.Tag from longint to PtrInt

2006-09-06 Thread Aleš Katona
The problem here is that if you introduce a changing type to Tag, you're going to break streaming of the components between various platforms. However I think simplest would be to simply make the tag something huge for years to come, like Int64. The idea with hidden union is nice tho. But you'll n

Re: [fpc-devel] LinkLib Issues In Lazarus and in FPC-2.0.2

2006-07-18 Thread Aleš Katona
Alright everyone, just stop this ok? I was angry like hell when I first read the ORIGINAL poster's message about FreeBSD (hint, topic no longer valid in your discussion) I got even more angry and my response was very immature. I would like to apologise to everyone and especialy the original poster

Re: [fpc-devel] LinkLib Issues In Lazarus and in FPC-2.0.2

2006-07-17 Thread Aleš Katona
> Just a binary distribution right? I did not see the sources in ports, > which would have to be patched to fix the lib naming errors. Yes but one guy said he's working on source based one. > Are you saying that code produced by this Lazarus/FPC setup will not run > properly on older freebsd syst

Re: [fpc-devel] LinkLib Issues In Lazarus and in FPC-2.0.2

2006-07-16 Thread Aleš Katona
Hi Bob and welcome to the world of crap. Seriously and honestly, the FreeBSD porters made a big bad pile of crap when they some years ago decided to name "gtk-12" and others as "gtk12". Then they added to this pile of crap by renaming it back sometime after 6.0 release. Long story short, it's n