Re: [fpc-pascal] order of unit tests

2008-12-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Marc Santhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since I can save a lot of work depending on this orders I'd like to do > so. ;) Could you explain, I don't fully understand your statement. > Is there any argument speaking against assuming fixed order behaviour? One o

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal Support for ARM Architecture

2008-12-06 Thread Prince Riley
Hello Thanks for that reply ... and yes I meant IA32 A few additional points if I may .. When you say the FP supports the ARM architecture my specific question is how does FP 'inform' the GNU assembler back end of which ARM architecture is intended ... The following is just a snippet from the

[fpc-pascal] order of unit tests

2008-12-06 Thread Marc Santhoff
Hi, currently I'm observing the following behaviour: - test cases are run in the order of their registration - testing procedures (per test) are run in the order of their declaration in the test class Since I can save a lot of work depending on this orders I'd like to do so. ;) Is there any arg

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal Support for ARM Architecture

2008-12-06 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 06 Dec 2008, at 23:32, Prince Riley wrote: After reading the manuals I see that FP uses the GNU tools as back- ends and they support ARM ... but it that the extent of the support here. For example, the ASM directive in FP targets the IA33 processor semantics/syntax ...not ARM .. I guess y

[fpc-pascal] Free Pascal Support for ARM Architecture

2008-12-06 Thread Prince Riley
Hello I have read on the wiki that FP supports ARM.. which I find very interesting.. After reading the manuals I see that FP uses the GNU tools as back-ends and they support ARM ... but it that the extent of the support here. For example, the ASM directive in FP targets the IA33 processor semanti

[fpc-pascal] Embarcadero/CodeGear officialy interested in Firebird and on native versions of Delphi for other operating systems ...

2008-12-06 Thread Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis
Hi all, something i just read at http://www.firebirdnews.org and in Marco Cantu's blog ( http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/coderage_2008_closing.html ) regards, -- Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

[fpc-pascal] setting unit output dir in packages/extra

2008-12-06 Thread Marc Santhoff
Hi, I'm trying hard to make a package thatfits inside fpc/packages/extra. Most things do work, but some details are missing still. How and where is the setting made that directs the output of package compilation to $targetos/something and the installation target path? A typical packages/extra Ma

Re: [fpc-pascal] bitwise generator

2008-12-06 Thread ik
Thanks for the answer. I wanted to do it using Firebird instead of my Pascal code.. now I understand thanks to you, that I need to do it using stored procedure. Thanks, Ido On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > ik writes: > > > I wish to create a firebird

Re: [fpc-pascal] bitwise generator

2008-12-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
ik writes: I wish to create a firebird generator that does bitwise  generation rather then ordinal generator. I mean: 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 etc.. Does anyone have knowledge how to create such generation in firebird ? I am not clear what you are trying to do. You are trying to generate the s

Re: [fpc-pascal] fstat usage

2008-12-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
Micha Nelissen writes: Francisco Reyes wrote: Trying the fstat function and don't seem to be getting the right values for ctime, mtime and atime. What OS and CPU ? Tried FreeBSD 6.3 on i386, AMD CPU and Opensuse 10.3 64 bits AMD cpu ___ fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] [moderator] [OT] What would your second language be and why?

2008-12-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Jonas Maebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 06 Dec 2008, at 11:21, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > >> I know this is a bit off-topic in this mailing list > > Indeed. Please use the fpc-other list for this sort of questions. All Sorry, I didn't know there was another m

Re: [fpc-pascal] Porting linux to pascal, would it be, possible ?

2008-12-06 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:20 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How far did you guys get with the 'fpwm' project? Did it actually run > at some point. I see the last code changes was 2 years ago. I think it was able to run, but wouldn't do much. Too many other tasks at hand, and t

[fpc-pascal] [moderator] [OT] What would your second language be and why?

2008-12-06 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 06 Dec 2008, at 11:21, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I know this is a bit off-topic in this mailing list Indeed. Please use the fpc-other list for this sort of questions. All replies to this list will be reject. It is not polite to inundate people who are only here for asking and reading ab

Re: [fpc-pascal] GTK Pascal and Gnome applets

2008-12-06 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Andres Linares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to write Gnome Applets using GTK on Pascal? Do somebody know > about this? Sure it is possible, but I don't know if there are already translated bindings for the required library. The translation job is usua

[fpc-pascal] [OT] What would your second language be and why?

2008-12-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi I know this is a bit off-topic in this mailing list, but I also know that asking this question here will give me unbiased answers. My daytime job is secure and I am a very happy Object Pascal developers. I'm a firm believer in rather learning one language and being very proficient in it, that b

Re: [fpc-pascal] Porting linux to pascal, would it be, possible ?

2008-12-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Skybuck Flying <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. Using automatic conversion from C to Pascal but then the code would still > have to be checked by humans. I can just imagine it will generate ugly code. I would much rather imagine that a clean design with a good obje

[fpc-pascal] bitwise generator

2008-12-06 Thread ik
Hello, I wish to create a firebird generator that does bitwise generation rather then ordinal generator. I mean: 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 etc.. Does anyone have knowledge how to create such generation in firebird ? Thanks, Ido http://ik.homelinux.org/ _

Re: [fpc-pascal] Porting linux to pascal, would it be, possible ?

2008-12-06 Thread Skybuck Flying
Ok, so lots of code... Two possibilities come to mind: 1. Using automatic conversion from C to Pascal but then the code would still have to be checked by humans. 2. Only convert certain portions which are most interesting to people. For example: Linux's tcp/ip stack. Linux gui. So that fo

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Porting linux to pascal, would it be possible ?

2008-12-06 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Guillermo Mart?nez Jim?nez said: > > I think the problem here (again) is not the language, it's the critical > > mass of users of the language. Using C for Linux was a good bet, not > > because the language is good (Pascal is way better for me), but because C > > has a w

Re: [fpc-pascal] Porting linux to pascal, would it be, possible ?

2008-12-06 Thread leledumbo
>> How could Linus Torvalds write the core of Linux in rather short time, single-handed, if it is such a huge task just to port it? Because he didn't really write it from scratch, instead he just improves what's already there (Unix source code, maybe?) and poing! Linux comes up. -- View this me

Re: [fpc-pascal] fstat usage

2008-12-06 Thread Micha Nelissen
Francisco Reyes wrote: Trying the fstat function and don't seem to be getting the right values for ctime, mtime and atime. What OS and CPU ? Micha ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinf