Re: [fpc-pascal] Currency and ABS(-674.59)

2012-03-10 Thread Joao Morais
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 06:36, Jonas Maebe wrote: > On 09 Mar 2012, at 10:23, Sven Barth wrote: > >> The buzzword for this is Fixed Point Arithmetic. See >> here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_arithmetic > > And in principle, it's exactly what currency should use. And in fact, it is > wh

Re: [fpc-pascal] status of MIPS port

2012-03-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior wrote: Whats the status of the MIPS port ? I am currently working on a project called "OpenTik", wich aims at replacing mikrotik's routeros with a completely opensource alternative. Originally i wanted to use FreeBSD on ARM but theres no freepascal compiler for this.

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpWeb: Error when trying to call a module without an action

2012-03-10 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Fri, 9 Mar 2012, Sven Barth wrote: I'm using the embedded webserver variant and the error only surfaced after I added a second module which let's me assume that the problem is the same as this: http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pip

RE : [fpc-pascal] FPC Advanced Records

2012-03-10 Thread Ludo Brands
> > > > where by the time ThisSize is accessed any disparity has been > > corrected? > > > > Not sure if this will be of any use. > > but you can always define an assignment incompatible type > WordLE = record data: Word; end; > > and define all required overloaded operators Or an endian

[fpc-pascal] status of MIPS port

2012-03-10 Thread Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior
Whats the status of the MIPS port ? I am currently working on a project called "OpenTik", wich aims at replacing mikrotik's routeros with a completely opensource alternative. Originally i wanted to use FreeBSD on ARM but theres no freepascal compiler for this. I switched to a Linux based system

[fpc-pascal] Re: xterm -e program-compiled-with-fpc2.4.0 doesn't work

2012-03-10 Thread max
Jonas Maebe-2 wrote > > The internal representation of real numbers has never been changed in > FPC. . > I may have expressed myself incorrectly, but there was the case when records of real numbers written to disk by a program compiled with fpc 1.0.4 , when read back by the same program compile

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Advanced Records

2012-03-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: Am 09.03.2012 23:26, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: Martin wrote: On 09/03/2012 21:26, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: but is there any way to define something like an endianness-correcting type, i.e.: Type TAWSHeader=Record ThisSize: WordLE; .. where by the time ThisSize is accessed

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Advanced Records

2012-03-10 Thread Sven Barth
Am 09.03.2012 23:26, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: Martin wrote: On 09/03/2012 21:26, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: but is there any way to define something like an endianness-correcting type, i.e.: Type TAWSHeader=Record ThisSize: WordLE; .. where by the time ThisSize is accessed any disparity has