Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal Setup

2017-05-05 Thread Tobias Giesen
I think you were on the wrong page. You probably want this, which includes the Lazarus IDE: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=downloads - Please excuse the shortness of this mail which was sent from my mobile phone. If necessary, I will send more information later. Cheers, Tobia

[fpc-pascal] Free Pascal Setup

2017-05-05 Thread John van der Linden
Hi, When I download the Free Pascal I get a file called i386-win32-ppc386.zip which contains 1 file called ppc386.exe which does not contain the Setup system for the Free Pascal IDE that I was expecting. I have gone right through the Web Site and , although there is a lot of words, there is no

Re: [fpc-pascal] Call for testing: array constructors

2017-05-05 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
Am 05.05.2017 21:19 schrieb "Mark Morgan Lloyd" < markmll.fpc-pas...@telemetry.co.uk>: > > On 04/05/17 22:30, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: >> >> Hello together! >> Since revision 36105 FPC now supports the use of array constructorsusing the "[...]" syntax inside ordinary code blocks like Delphi

Re: [fpc-pascal] Threading vs Parallelism ?

2017-05-05 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Brian said: > Affinity > > If a thread is dedicated to say , polling a serial or Ethernet port which > has a high input data rate , then dedicating one CPU to that task/thread is > useful. Well, the driver actually does the hardware, so it is already buffered for userland

Re: [fpc-pascal] Threading vs Parallelism ?

2017-05-05 Thread Brian
Affinity If a thread is dedicated to say , polling a serial or Ethernet port which has a high input data rate , then dedicating one CPU to that task/thread is useful. (Hard Affinity) with multi-core CPU's is to dedicate a specific core to a task (thread) and just poll the input memory mapped sou

Re: [fpc-pascal] Call for testing: array constructors

2017-05-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 04/05/17 22:30, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: Hello together! Since revision 36105 FPC now supports the use of array constructorsusing the "[...]" syntax inside ordinary code blocks like Delphi doessince - I think - XE8. And yes, even nested ones are supported (take alook at $fpcdir/test

Re: [fpc-pascal] Patch for fpimage.inc

2017-05-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-05-05 14:25, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > But it's somewhat confusing, because the second patch modifies the first. Thanks Michael. I guess it took two attempts to fix the issue at hand. If that was me, I would probably have flattened the changes to a single commit. $ git merge --squash

Re: [fpc-pascal] Patch for fpimage.inc

2017-05-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 5 May 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, I received notification of a patch (pull request) via my FPC Git mirror. The author has been notified to rather use Mantis, but seems to have some troubles registering. If anybody with FPC commit access wanted to take a look, the patch can be

[fpc-pascal] Patch for fpimage.inc

2017-05-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I received notification of a patch (pull request) via my FPC Git mirror. The author has been notified to rather use Mantis, but seems to have some troubles registering. If anybody with FPC commit access wanted to take a look, the patch can be found here. https://github.com/graemeg/freepasc

Re: [fpc-pascal] Freevision etc.

2017-05-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 04/05/17 20:30, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: The record that Dialedit generates to represent initial or extracted dialogue box values has alignment and/or packing problems. There's a comment in the source that the FreeVision sources expect dwords while the author using a debugger believed that wo