Re: [fpc-pascal] package help & site bug

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 02:48:49AM +0200, Marco Ciampa wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:24:01PM -0700, David Emerson wrote: > > Have you tried the ubuntu repositories? > > > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=fp-&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all > Yes, no ppc packages at all > > > >

Re: [fpc-pascal] package help & site bug

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:24:01PM -0700, David Emerson wrote: > Have you tried the ubuntu repositories? > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=fp-&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all Yes, no ppc packages at all > > Although many debian packages are incompatible with ubuntu, I suspect > th

Re: [fpc-pascal] Exe size

On 6 Sep 08, at 11:08, Paul wrote: Hi Paul, > > Similarly to Felipe, I don't understand why this should be a bad news for > > you or why this should mean that Visual Studio gave you something not > > available with FPC (or what that "something" was in that case)... It looks > > as if I either do

Re: [fpc-pascal] License question; unit to view floating-point details

On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 12:44:13PM +0200, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > > > > Post the sources somewhere using the license header we use? I made the source available as a Contributed Unit using a modified LGPL. You can find a zip archive here:

Re: [fpc-pascal] Speed difference between intel/ppc on intel Mac

On 07 Sep 2008, at 21:38, Micha Nelissen wrote: Jonas Maebe wrote: You can use -vd to have the compiler print out all compiler options it interprets (both from configuration files and from the command line). In general, to get the best code for an Intel Core family processor, use somethin

Re: [fpc-pascal] Speed difference between intel/ppc on intel Mac

Jonas Maebe wrote: You can use -vd to have the compiler print out all compiler options it interprets (both from configuration files and from the command line). In general, to get the best code for an Intel Core family processor, use something like -O3ppentium4 -Cppentium4 -Cfsse2 i doubt it'

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Using TSdfDataset

On 9/7/08, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never heard or seen TSdfDataset or TFixedDataset - other than > from your recent postings. From the wiki page, it looks like the data > is stored in a simple CSV file. So does the TxxxDataset class simply > act as a wrapper to the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Using TSdfDataset

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I started a documentation for TSdfDataset: > > http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Database_Tutorial#Using_TSdfDataset_and_TFixedDataset Hi Felipe, I've never heard or seen TSdfDataset or TFixedDatase

Re: [fpc-pascal] License question; unit to view floating-point details

On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 07:53:06AM -0300, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > I would suggest to put this routines in a new unit, to keep the > existing base units small and clean. How about naming them FloatUtils? Tom -- E-MAIL: T.Verhoeff @ TUE.NL | Dept. of Math. & Comp. Science

Re: [fpc-pascal] Help converting h-file

On 07 Sep 2008, at 14:35, Koenraad Lelong wrote: Google helped me understand the "volatile" keyword, but is there a Pascal alternative ? No. FPC is at this time unlikely to perform any optimisations on pointer or global variables accesses that would be inhibited by making them "volatile"

[fpc-pascal] Help converting h-file

Hi, I want to convert a h-file of a c-library and h2pas has problems with it. The file contains "static inline" functions. A second problem is the "volatile" keyword that's used in the function. How do I approach this ? Google helped me understand the "volatile" keyword, but is there a Pascal alte

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Using TSdfDataset

I started a documentation for TSdfDataset: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Database_Tutorial#Using_TSdfDataset_and_TFixedDataset ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pasca

Re: [fpc-pascal] License question; unit to view floating-point details

On 07 Sep 2008, at 11:44, Marco van de Voort wrote: This is a bit more liberal than LGPL either, otherwise everybody would have to linking dynamically to FPC libs, which is technically hard to impossible. (and not desirable to make that mandatory anyway). Or they would have to make the ob

Re: [fpc-pascal] License question; unit to view floating-point details

In our previous episode, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho said: > I would suggest to put this routines in a new unit, to keep the > existing base units small and clean. Fragmenting the same kind of functionality over several units is IMHO not clean. ___ fpc-p

Re: [fpc-pascal] License question; unit to view floating-point details

I would suggest to put this routines in a new unit, to keep the existing base units small and clean. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] License question; unit to view floating-point details

In our previous episode, Tom Verhoeff said: > > > > > > If it's endian safe and if there are tests, I propose to incoperate it > > > in math. > > > > The "Tostring" stuff should go into sysutils or strutils. > > There are also some constants and (conversion) types shared by the > mathematical o

Re: [fpc-pascal] License question; unit to view floating-point details

In our previous episode, Tom Verhoeff said: > > > > Post the sources somewhere using the license header we use? > > I intend to do just that. I was considering the use of plain GPL, > rather than LGPL. However, I wonder if that would interfere with the > incorporation into FreePascal. Neither a

Re: [fpc-pascal] License question; unit to view floating-point details

On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 11:28:52PM +0200, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Florian Klaempfl said: > > > Would there be any interest in incorporating it? > > > > If it's endian safe and if there are tests, I propose to incoperate it > > in math. > > The "Tostring" stuff should

Re: [fpc-pascal] License question; unit to view floating-point details

On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 09:31:02PM +0200, Florian Klaempfl wrote: >> >> What would I need to do to release it under the same license as >> other FreePascal libraries? > > Post the sources somewhere using the license header we use? I intend to do just that. I was considering the use of plain GPL,

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to customize a TDBMemo

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could not find events which would allow me to do this, so I tryed to > create a TDBMemo descendent and override some method, but this also > doesn't work, because I would need to access private fields in TDBM