[fpc-pascal] Question on exceptions

2008-08-24 Thread John Youngquist
When you enable things like range checking. How do you identify when an exception has occurred and what it means? I see messages like "Unhandled exception occurred at $hex address" then a bunch more $hex address' I don't know what to do with these numbers. JY __

[fpc-pascal] Re: Strange Floating Point Exception problem

2008-08-24 Thread Tom Verhoeff
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:20:48AM +0200, Tom Verhoeff wrote: > I have an application (for optimizing decisions in the dice game Yahtzee) > that uses Real and runs well with FPC on Mac OS X (PPC), but that > fails with a Floating Point Exception (FPE) under Windows (FPC 2.2.0). I "played" around s

Re: [fpc-pascal] Widestrings manager ?

2008-08-24 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op zondag 24-08-2008 om 03:34 uur [tijdzone -0300], schreef Steve Howe: > Hello Graeme, > > On 8/23/08, Steve Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "This binary has no widestrings support compiled in. > > > Recompile the application with a widestrings-manager in the program uses > > > clause." >

Re: [fpc-pascal] Documentation bug

2008-08-24 Thread tom_at_work
Hello, Am 22.08.2008 um 10:31 schrieb leledumbo: Thomas Schatzl wrote: Use fpc -i to query the available optimization options. I know that, but what I need is an explanation about what each optimization does. Plus, what are the defaults? From the programmer's manual about the $OPTIMIZAT