[fpc-pascal]SQLite and NULL Strings...

2003-07-13 Thread James Mills
Hi, This is a very weird behaviour I've found of either SQLite, or the Unit. I'm not sure... I have been discussing this same problem on the SQLite mailing list but without success there, so perhaps someone here might know... I have attached a test database, which contains 1 database entry, null

Re: [fpc-pascal]Strange Segfault...

2003-07-13 Thread James Mills
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 09:56:20PM +0100, Matt and Lisa Emson wrote: > > And yes Matt > > Emson, I do understand why my original functions weren't working :) > > including the part about not passing Strings as var params too? ;-P Yes and no. Why is it so bad to write a function in that way ? It c

[fpc-pascal]RE: FPC version 1.0.10 is out.

2003-07-13 Thread Jeff Pohlmeyer
> The FPC team is pleased to announce that version 1.0.10 of > the Free Pascal Compiler is (finally) released. Hooray ! Great work, guys. I also downloaded the latest version of the HTML documentation ( I absolutely despise PDF ). The documentation looks good, but I found some broken links

[fpc-pascal]v1.0.10 w32 release Eventlog resource not found

2003-07-13 Thread Ronald Fox
A significant enhancement found in the win32 release is the EventLog unit. I had a little trouble with compiling the example program tstelcmd.pp because the linker couldn't find a required resource file. After finding the missing file (fclel.res) in c:\pp\source\fcl\win32\ and copying it to my so

[fpc-pascal]v1.0.10 w32 release TRegistry.KeyExists function broken?

2003-07-13 Thread Ronald Fox
I'm very happy to see a working Registry unit for win32 in the latest release. I can't get the KeyExists function to work as I imagine it should, though. I would expect that KeyExists should test for the presence of a relative or absolute key in the registry. Instead, it seems to return false fo

Re: [fpc-pascal]Strange Segfault...

2003-07-13 Thread Matt and Lisa Emson
> And yes Matt > Emson, I do understand why my original functions weren't working :) including the part about not passing Strings as var params too? ;-P ___ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pasc

Re: [fpc-pascal]Alpha version of the Building tutorial

2003-07-13 Thread Marco van de Voort
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > this document is still being written though, but is already better and > > more up to date than the current one. > > > > I usually update the above link after changes. > > > > Comments, suggestions etc welcome > > If by any chance you happ

Re: [fpc-pascal]Alpha version of the Building tutorial

2003-07-13 Thread Silviu Cojocaru
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Marco van de Voort wrote: > The new document is for now only in PDF format and available at: > > http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/buildfaq.pdf > > this document is still being written though, but is already better and > more up to date than the current one. > > I usually update

[fpc-pascal]Alpha version of the Building tutorial

2003-07-13 Thread Marco van de Voort
Hi, I've working on a new document on FPC development (and subjects like snapshot building) that replaces the old "make cycle faq" on: http://www.freepascal.org/makecyc.html The new document is for now only in PDF format and available at: http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/buildfaq.pdf this document

Re: [fpc-pascal]Strange Segfault...

2003-07-13 Thread James Mills
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 06:41:22AM -0700, Jeff Pohlmeyer wrote: > (* > How about using "set of char" instead of "array of char" ? > That way, the compiler should be able to distinguish > between the overloads... > *) > program repl; > > type > tSetOfChar = set of char; > > procedure repl