Re: [fpc-devel] Re: EBCDIC ( was On a port of Free Pascal to the IBM 370)

2012-01-31 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Sven Barth schrieb: On 30.01.2012 20:31, steve smithers wrote: Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote on Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:40:27 +0100 Existing source code frequently assumes ASCII encoding. The obvious are upper/lowercase conversions, by and/or or add/sub constant values to

Re: [fpc-devel] Bounty for MIPS

2012-01-31 Thread Michael Schnell
On 01/30/2012 09:47 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: My understanding is that "naked" Flash devices have limited write capability, but that "thumb drives" have an embedded microcontroller that levels the wear. There is still the issue that some filesystems work better with this type of device tha

Re: [fpc-devel] Bounty for MIPS

2012-01-31 Thread Michael Schnell
On 01/30/2012 06:16 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Presumably for the same reasons that people are trying to translate C to FPGA functionality. NOT that I'm suggesting that as a viable project. There are special "parallel" C dialects that are useful for this. Moreover the most modern way of sys

[fpc-devel] FPDoc imports

2012-01-31 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
In an attempt to help improve fpdoc I'm blocked in understanding the handling of imported modules. The content files are imported into the link tree, but this tree seems not to be used in finding external identifiers? Instead packages are searched, where I could not yet figure out how these a

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: EBCDIC (was On a port of Free Pascal to the IBM 370)

2012-01-31 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
steve smithers wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote on Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:46:28 + Although Linux/390 is closer to what the bulk of us are used to, so please humour us. I am a Linux user so I am sympathetic. It's just that I really don't do development on Linux and am therefore unaware of it'

Re: [fpc-devel] FPDoc imports

2012-01-31 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: In an attempt to help improve fpdoc I'm blocked in understanding the handling of imported modules. The content files are imported into the link tree, but this tree seems not to be used in finding external identifiers? The content files are co

Re: [fpc-devel] Bounty for MIPS

2012-01-31 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: > capability, but that "thumb drives" have an embedded microcontroller > that levels the wear. There is still the issue that some filesystems > work better with this type of device than others. > > My experience with external USB-connected drives

Re: [fpc-devel] Bounty for MIPS

2012-01-31 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Marco van de Voort schrieb: I've seen 2.5" usb-only HDD's crash laptops, and my experiences with other arm devices (Sheeva, goflex are the same). In short, no devices that don't have an own PSU. My experience is quite different from yours. I've a couple of external 3.5" HHDs with external PS

Re: [fpc-devel] FPDoc imports

2012-01-31 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: In an attempt to help improve fpdoc I'm blocked in understanding the handling of imported modules. The content files are imported into the link tree, but this tree seems not to be used in finding external identifi

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: EBCDIC (was On a port of Free Pascal to the IBM 370)

2012-01-31 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb: Sorry, you've missed my point. I've come across systems where compilers have to be "blessed" by the local security administrator before they can mark code as executable, and there's a progressively stronger chain up to the point where nobody except that manufacturer

Re: [fpc-devel] FPDoc imports

2012-01-31 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: In an attempt to help improve fpdoc I'm blocked in understanding the handling of imported modules. The content files are imported into the link tree, but this tr

Re: [fpc-devel] FPDoc imports

2012-01-31 Thread Sven Barth
Am 31.01.2012 14:42, schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich: Would it help if I try to create packages from the imports? No. Seems like I misinterpreted the many "unit not found" :-( I still wonder why the number of units in the imported RTL package increases over time. Initially it contains 7 modules

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: EBCDIC (was On a port of Free Pascal to the IBM 370)

2012-01-31 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb: Sorry, you've missed my point. I've come across systems where compilers have to be "blessed" by the local security administrator before they can mark code as executable, and there's a progressively stronger chain up to the point where nob

Re: [fpc-devel] Bounty for MIPS

2012-01-31 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Marco van de Voort schrieb: I've seen 2.5" usb-only HDD's crash laptops, and my experiences with other arm devices (Sheeva, goflex are the same). In short, no devices that don't have an own PSU. My experience is quite different from yours. I've a couple of extern