Re: [fpc-devel] Adding a unidirectional dataset to sqldb

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Joost van der Sluis wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 07:51 +0200, Martin Schreiber wrote: > > On Thursday 05 October 2006 22.41, Joost van der Sluis wrote: > > > > > Now I'm thinking about using an interface, to avoid double code. But I > > > > > don't know what effect that ha

[fpc-devel] CmdLine

2006-10-18 Thread Micha Nelissen
Hi, Does the CmdLine variable in the System unit exist for Delphi/TP/... compatibility ? Micha ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] CmdLine

2006-10-18 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Wed, 18 Oct 2006, schreef Micha Nelissen: > Hi, > > Does the CmdLine variable in the System unit exist for Delphi/TP/... > compatibility ? Delphi compatibility. By the way, I have a patch ready which turns it into a property, which prevents some code being pulled in Hello World kind of ap

Re: [fpc-devel] CmdLine

2006-10-18 Thread Peter Vreman
>> Does the CmdLine variable in the System unit exist for Delphi/TP/... >> compatibility ? > > Delphi compatibility. > > By the way, I have a patch ready which turns it into a property, which > prevents some code being pulled in Hello World kind of apps. That is the best solution. It will then als

Re: [fpc-devel] CmdLine

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Peter Vreman wrote: > >> Does the CmdLine variable in the System unit exist for Delphi/TP/... > >> compatibility ? > > > > Delphi compatibility. > > > > By the way, I have a patch ready which turns it into a property, which > > prevents some code being pulled in Hello World

Re: [fpc-devel] CmdLine

2006-10-18 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Wed, 18 Oct 2006, schreef Michael Van Canneyt: > > > On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Peter Vreman wrote: > > > >> Does the CmdLine variable in the System unit exist for Delphi/TP/... > > >> compatibility ? > > > > > > Delphi compatibility. > > > > > > By the way, I have a patch ready which turns it i

Re: [fpc-devel] CmdLine

2006-10-18 Thread Micha Nelissen
Daniël Mantione wrote: > By the way, I have a patch ready which turns it into a property, which > prevents some code being pulled in Hello World kind of apps. Would be nice if somehow smartlinking could be 'smartened' to optimize this out. (Conditional initialization for group of variables/functi

Re: [fpc-devel] CmdLine

2006-10-18 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Wed, 18 Oct 2006, schreef Micha Nelissen: > Daniël Mantione wrote: > > By the way, I have a patch ready which turns it into a property, which > > prevents some code being pulled in Hello World kind of apps. > > Would be nice if somehow smartlinking could be 'smartened' to optimize > this ou

Re: [fpc-devel] CmdLine

2006-10-18 Thread Micha Nelissen
Daniël Mantione wrote: > > Op Wed, 18 Oct 2006, schreef Micha Nelissen: > >> Would be nice if somehow smartlinking could be 'smartened' to optimize >> this out. (Conditional initialization for group of variables/functions?) > > Yes :) I thought at least a hundred times about it during the last t

Re: [fpc-devel] CmdLine

2006-10-18 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Wed, 18 Oct 2006, schreef Micha Nelissen: > Daniël Mantione wrote: > > > > Op Wed, 18 Oct 2006, schreef Micha Nelissen: > > > >> Would be nice if somehow smartlinking could be 'smartened' to optimize > >> this out. (Conditional initialization for group of variables/functions?) > > > > Yes

Re: [fpc-devel] CmdLine

2006-10-18 Thread Micha Nelissen
Daniël Mantione wrote: > I have considered the use of units. But if you need a unit for > something like cmdline, and start applying this technique to other things > in the system unit, it becomes one mess of helper units. To be able to smartlink this situation, you *need* to group them somehow.

Re: [fpc-devel] CmdLine

2006-10-18 Thread Micha Nelissen
Daniël Mantione wrote: > something like cmdline, and start applying this technique to other things > in the system unit, it becomes one mess of helper units. Btw, I don't think have any right to say this, looking at all the include files in the fpc source itself ;-). unix <-> linux <-> objpas <->

[fpc-devel] request for new compiler option

2006-10-18 Thread peter green
i'd like a way to tell the compiler not to allow implicit conversions between certain types (e.g. ansi/shortstrings and widestrings) this would make it much easier to clean up existing code that carelessly converts between two sort of but not very compatible types.

Re: [fpc-devel] CmdLine

2006-10-18 Thread Peter Vreman
> Daniël Mantione wrote: >> By the way, I have a patch ready which turns it into a property, which >> prevents some code being pulled in Hello World kind of apps. > > Would be nice if somehow smartlinking could be 'smartened' to optimize > this out. (Conditional initialization for group of variable

Re: [fpc-devel] CmdLine

2006-10-18 Thread Peter Vreman
>>> Would be nice if somehow smartlinking could be 'smartened' to optimize >>> this out. (Conditional initialization for group of >>> variables/functions?) >> >> Yes :) I thought at least a hundred times about it during the last ten >> years, but I never came up with an idea that is both clean and

Re: [fpc-devel] CmdLine

2006-10-18 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Thu, 19 Oct 2006, schreef Peter Vreman: > > Daniël Mantione wrote: > >> By the way, I have a patch ready which turns it into a property, which > >> prevents some code being pulled in Hello World kind of apps. > > > > Would be nice if somehow smartlinking could be 'smartened' to optimize > > t