On Fri, 25 Apr 2025, Luca Olivetti via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hello,
recently I get a lot of these errors (i.e., I modify something, in lazarus
click on "compile" or "run", and I get the error).
If I then use "clean up & build.." the compilation ends without errors.
I recently switched the virt
On Tue, 18 Feb 2025, Luca Olivetti via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hello,
I need to copy a table between an mssql database and a postgresql one.
I used a query to obtain the data, a datasource ponting to it and another
query using the datasource, the sql being
INSERT INTO table (f1,f2,f3...) value
On Fri, 14 Feb 2025, ppadilcdx--- via fpc-pascal wrote:
I did copy gmp.pas to another folder and named it mygmp.pas, changed "$linklib
gmp.3” to "$linklib gmp.dylib” (just plain gmp did not work). Now examples compile
and run with the change to “uses mygmp” and adding opt/homebrew/lib to the
On Tue, 11 Feb 2025, ppadilcdx--- via fpc-pascal wrote:
What else do I need to add to the compile line to use the gmp unit? I added
gmp to the use line and it throws an error in compilation:
ld: warning: -multiply_defined is obsolete
-macosx_version_min has been renamed to -macos_version_mi
On Mon, 3 Feb 2025, ppadilcdx--- via fpc-pascal wrote:
Is there a reason that the fpc installation does not include the fcl-stl
examples and docs in the share/doc directory? I had to download the fpc source
to find them (in packages/fcl-stl).
No, it is an oversight.
Michael.
On Thu, 23 Jan 2025, Frank McCormick via fpc-pascal wrote:
Strange. I know someone who uses ocrt on OpenSuse since years. Maybe he
is still on an older version of OpenSuse.
I now tested 10 of the provided demos and on my linux mint they all start
without problem.
This is weird. This
On Tue, 21 Jan 2025, Frank McCormick via fpc-pascal wrote:
On 2025-01-21 09:00, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jan 2025, Frank McCormick via fpc-pascal wrote:
I have been trying out a CRT replacement called NCRT and OCRT and
am getting link errors which I can&#
On Mon, 20 Jan 2025, Frank McCormick via fpc-pascal wrote:
I have been trying out a CRT replacement called NCRT and OCRT and
am getting link errors which I can't track down. Originally I was getting
compile errors but I sorted that out.
Are these units still workable with Free Pascal ?
Thes
On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, Andrew Haines via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hi, is unixsockets.pp in rtl-extra supposed to be included when fpc is
built for linux? I ran
Yes. It was not built, I added it to fpmake.
I also applied the fix you mentioned for the size_t problem.
Michael.
___
On Fri, 20 Dec 2024, Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, 20 Dec 2024, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
If I compile it with:
Free Pascal Compiler version 3.3.1-16969-g798f2ba632-dirty [2024/11/28] for
i386
I get almost what I expected, but my #$EE is now been changed
On Thu, 19 Dec 2024, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
I am using ProgProcess to execute a program with data passed as parameters.
I'm adding the parameters with this:
ProgProcess := TProcess.Create(nil);
ProgProcess.Executable := 'cmd.exe';
ProgProcess.Parameters.
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote:
I have written a command line utility program on Linux using Lazarus as the IDE.
This was done a while ago on an Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 machine, which I normally
access using VNC when doing Lazarus work there.
Now since a few months the Ti
On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
Which I paraphrased loosely as:
"It's not because something is in the pascal standard, that FPC has it."
As with any of the language dialect compatibility modes the point is that
FPC can compile code in that dialect, but *not* that cod
On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Sat, 14 Dec 2024, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
It's not because something is in the pascal standard, that FPC has it.
It is. Appendix D6 of the Programmer's Refe
On Sat, 14 Dec 2024, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Sat, 14 Dec 2024, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Macpascal and Iso pascal have procedural parameters, e.g.
function A( function B: double): double;
Is there a $modeswitch
On Sat, 14 Dec 2024, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Macpascal and Iso pascal have procedural parameters, e.g.
function A( function B: double): double;
Is there a $modeswitch to allow this ? I searched "procedure parameter" and
"procedural parameter" in the Language Reference
On Wed, 4 Dec 2024, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
schrieb am Mi., 4. Dez. 2024, 18:24:
@Michael: do you think you can take a look? I also got the feeling that
it
tries to compile more while nothing changed than with 3.2.2, though I did
not yet
On Wed, 4 Dec 2024, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal schrieb am
Mi., 4. Dez. 2024, 13:56:
Were there known changes in that area since March 3rd 2023? Honestly they
were causing so many crashes maybe they got pulled for incremental
building. I’d rather take the cr
On Sun, 1 Dec 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Nov 30, 2024 at 11:54:21 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
sorry but it’s not really part of the compiler, just something that
generates commands it feeds to the compile right?.
On Sat, 30 Nov 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Nov 30, 2024 at 3:11:10 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
This is very much on topic. FPC has no build system
Huh ? Of course it does, it has 2. fpcmake (older) and fpmake.
On Fri, 29 Nov 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Nov 29, 2024 at 8:11:11 AM, James Richters via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
I'm intrigued by FPGUI, I'm trying to build FPGUI on Windows 10, and I'm
having some difficulty. When I follow the instructions from
On Sat, 23 Nov 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Nov 24, 2024 at 4:12:03 AM, Iwan Kelaiah via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
Hello,
I'm not sure, but I am working on this one:
https://ikelaiah.github.io/free-pascal-cookbook/, and it mentions how to
install FP
On Sun, 17 Nov 2024, Vern via fpc-pascal wrote:
Travis,
There is a discussion in the fpc archives 2014 I believe about using Geany.
I have been using Geany for over 10 years with complex GUI programs ... but
you must use a file located in the directory where the executable is linked.
...
On Sat, 16 Nov 2024, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 11:43 AM Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
wrote:
> I could see that if it was a compiler for “Pascal” which was defined by
> some other group and you could reference them but it isn’t. FP
On Sat, 16 Nov 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Nov 16, 2024 at 7:24:01 PM, Michael Van Canneyt
wrote:
That said, the Free Pascal website is not about the pascal language.
It is about the compiler. The GNU compiler or LLVM C compiler also do not
contain code on their website. No
On Sat, 16 Nov 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Nov 16, 2024 at 3:13:26 PM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
If you know nothing about the language, the main page explains to you
quickly what's the point of the language, and gives you exampl
On Sun, 20 Oct 2024, ppadilcdx--- via fpc-pascal wrote:
Apropos the new users discussion, i think the state of the docs is really
important, new users can be discouraged by lack of documentation or up-to-date
docs.
I just recently retired so not a new young user, but relatily new to fpc. So
On Fri, 18 Oct 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Oct 19, 2024 at 2:31:36 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
This would mean that a new class type or some kind of additional attribute
would have to be introduced which would have to be incompatibl
On Fri, 18 Oct 2024, Martin Frb via fpc-pascal wrote:
On 18/10/2024 10:41, Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal wrote:
For once, I'd be really glad if a bunch of the containers would be
Thread-Safe by default, like TList and things, and they aren't, because
they're based on almost 3 decade old Delph
On Thu, 17 Oct 2024, Christo Crause via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 7:42 PM Alexey T. via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
15 Oct news at Hacker News:
https://floss.fund/blog/announcing-floss-fund/
They pay 1M $ per year, all FPC needs to apply is the fundin
On Thu, 17 Oct 2024, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
schrieb am Do., 17. Okt. 2024, 11:40:
On Wed, 16 Oct 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Oct 17, 2024 at 12:03:47 AM, Guillermo Martínez Jiménez via
fpc-pascal <
fpc-pas
On Wed, 16 Oct 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Oct 17, 2024 at 12:03:47 AM, Guillermo Martínez Jiménez via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
Prease DON'T add garbage collector. IMO it isn't a good idea. I had
very bad experiences with it. Unless somebody foun
On Thu, 17 Oct 2024, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal wrote:
I fully agree. It is especially true for young people.
My wife creates websites for a living. I nearly had to re-animate her
after she looked at the FPC website.
The FPC website is a no-go area for her since that time.
Hence my in
On Wed, 16 Oct 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Oct 17, 2024 at 4:12:08 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
I have proposed this to the FPC core team, after some insistance I managed
to get a list of constraints from (if memory
On Wed, 16 Oct 2024, Ralf Quint via fpc-pascal wrote:
Sorry, but there has been so much nonsense in this thread, I just had to add
my 2c as well.
On 10/15/2024 4:07 PM, Rainer Stratmann via fpc-pascal wrote:
At the Lazarus Congress in Cologne in October 2024, it ended up being very
interest
On Wed, 16 Oct 2024, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal wrote:
On 10/16/24 4:57 PM, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Oct 16, 2024 at 8:50:21 PM, Ștefan-Iulian Alecu via fpc-pascal
wrote:
4. a proper VSCode extension (we can include Vim and Emacs there too,
but the main focus is VSCode) wi
On Sat, 17 Aug 2024, Thomas Kurz via fpc-pascal wrote:
Great!
Is this Json Typedef as described here? https://jsontypedef.com/
No, it is https://json-schema.org
I know about jsontypedef, and it is on my todo list because personally I
prefer it to json-schema which is a bit heavy-handed. (
Hi,
I added a JSON-Schema class to FPC. It currently supports the latest
JSON-Schema draft (2020-12)
There also is a validator class. There is a testsuite, but testsuites only go so far,
so I'd appreciate some feedback from people who have need for JSON-schema.
(in particular, the $ref handl
Hungarian:
--
Legyen szíves angolul írni.
A levelezőlista nyelve angol.
Valószínűleg csak néhány ember van itt, aki ért magyarul.
Valószínűleg a többiek is szeretnék érteni, amit írsz.
(a "Google fordító" segítségével fordítva)
Köszönöm.
English:
Please have the courte
Hello,
I was contacted by a company called Image-line:
http://www.image-line.com/
They develop software using FPC and are looking for FPC developers, who can
take on the following tasks:
* Maintain macOS build tools (Free Pascal and Xcode).
* Create and maintain build server jobs.
* Set up
On Tue, 23 Jul 2024, Thomas Kurz via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hello,
in
`https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/rtl/sockets/netaddrtostr6.html`,
it is written:
NetAddrToStr6 converts the IPV6 network address in Entry to a string
representation in human-readable form.
Basically, it is th
On Mon, 1 Jul 2024, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal schrieb am
Sa., 29. Juni 2024, 21:21:
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
Is that a function in the RTL? I can't find it.
No, these are platform-specific functions.
g_get_monotonic_ti
On Sat, 29 Jun 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Jun 29, 2024, at 5:43 PM, Adriaan van Os wrote:
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
I had a large function which I was profiling with MilliSecondsBetween but I
split it to be called many different times and now it's not accumulat
On Tue, 18 Jun 2024, Benito van der Zander via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hi,
This field was introduced for Delphi compatibility:
The implementation of TMonitor requires this data.
Delphi has this field as well but "hides" the field behind all other
actually declared fields.
If you examine the
On Sat, 4 May 2024, Tony Whyman via fpc-pascal wrote:
Michael,
I believe that the diplomatic answer to your response is that it is
"disappointing". This is a serious problem and needs to be discussed.
Thank you for being diplomatic.
Interfaces between modules written in different progr
On Thu, 2 May 2024, Tony Whyman via fpc-pascal wrote:
This is a problem reported to me by an IBX user. I have not yet confirmed it
(need to find the time to set up the latest development branch of FPC), but
the issue looks solid, and is due to the following addition to TObject
(copied from
On Mon, 18 Mar 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Mar 18, 2024, at 3:27 PM, Hairy Pixels wrote:
Oh, it's a pointer to a pointer? I guess that explains how it can resize itself
and not invalidate shared references, if those are even possible with
AnsiString.
Wait, that's total
On Mon, 18 Mar 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
Curious, why did the address of "s" change here? Shouldn't the AnsiString be
incrementing a reference count and not actually changing the actual pointer or copying?
Correct me if I'm wrong, AnsiString is ref counted when passing in/ou
On Thu, 14 Mar 2024, Florian Klämpfl via fpc-pascal wrote:
Still, it is more logical to place it under utils, with the rest of the
programs.
The argument about the time to compile seems simply false to me:
If you consider the FPC toplevel 'make all' as the only command to
issue, then you may
On Thu, 14 Mar 2024, Tomas Hajny via fpc-pascal wrote:
On 2024-03-14 11:06, Marco van de Voort via fpc-pascal wrote:
Op 14-3-2024 om 11:04 schreef Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal:
To me it therefore seems a better idea to move the IDE to utils, and to
have a
toplevel make command
On Thu, 14 Mar 2024, Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 14 Mar 2024, Guillermo Martínez Jiménez via fpc-pascal wrote:
I thought "packages" were libraries not applications, as there is an
"utils" directory with programs.
I agree, I'm also not very fond of the IDE being in pack
On Thu, 22 Feb 2024, Michael Anochin via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hello,
the TCustomJSONRPCHandler.DoCheckParamArray in fpjsonrpc.pp causes an
exception with the message "List index (0) out of bounds".
This happens, for example, if ParamArray is empty and there are not
required parameter in ParamD
On Sun, 18 Feb 2024, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
And if you have set the precision, then the calculation will be identical to
the calculation when you use a variable of the same type (if not, it's indeed a
bug).
This is what I have been trying to point out. Math with identical c
On Sat, 17 Feb 2024, wkitty42--- via fpc-pascal wrote:
On 2/16/24 9:57 AM, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
So you are saying when constant propagation is on, an expression should
have a different result than with constant propagation off?
The result of math when using constants MUST b
On Fri, 16 Feb 2024, Pique7 via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 22:08:16 +0100 (CET)
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jan 2024, Pique7 via fpc-pascal wrote:
Disregarding the RTF for a moment, you'd need to save the contents of the
text fields in a TStrin
On Tue, 13 Feb 2024, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
Sorry for the kind of duplicate post, I submitted it yesterday morning and I
thought it failed, so I re-did it and tried again.. then after that the
original one showed up.
A thought occurred to me. Since the complier math is expect
On Mon, 12 Feb 2024, Thomas Kurz via fpc-pascal wrote:
I wouldn't say so. Or at least, not generally. Why can't the compiler do what
the programer intends to do:
var
s: single;
d: double;
e: extended;
begin
s := 8427.0 + 33.0 / 1440.0; // treat all constants all "single"
d := 8427.0 +
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024, Amir--- via fpc-pascal wrote:
Without more info (declaration of ChildTClass, declaration of the
constructor
of that class etc), it is not possible to comment.
We need a complete compilable code sample to provide you with more insight.
Please have a look at the attach
On Mon, 29 Jan 2024, Amir--- via fpc-pascal wrote:
I am still struggling with this!
for i := 0 to vft^.Count - 1 do
begin
vfe := vft^.Field[i];
Name := vfe^.Name;
ChildTClass := vft^.ClassTab^.ClassRef[vfe^.TypeIndex - 1]^;
ChildObj := ChildTClass.Create;
T
On Mon, 22 Jan 2024, Amir--- via fpc-pascal wrote:
Params := TParams.Create;
WriteLn(Params.Int2.IntVal);
WriteLn(TInteger(Params.FieldAddress('Int2')).IntVal);
The third line does not work (the zipped code is attached).
It should be
WriteLn(TInteger(Params.FieldAddress('Int2')^).Int
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, Amir--- via fpc-pascal wrote:
How can I set the value?
I tried something like
Test := TTest.Create
Ptr := Pointer(Test);
TSub(Ptr+8) := TSub.Create;
But it is not working?
Depending on your platform, it can be an alignment issue.
Use
function TObject.FieldAddress(c
On Thu, 18 Jan 2024, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Also something which cannot be handled by 'standard' syntax.
(unless you wish to count generics and implicit specialization as "standard
syntax")
actual-parameter = expression { ":" expression } .
actual-parameter-list = "(" actu
On Thu, 18 Jan 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Jan 18, 2024, at 1:51 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
wrote:
There is no source for Str() in that sense, because Str() is a compiler
intrinsic implemented in the compiler's ninl.pas.
Well that explains everything now! What is t
On Thu, 18 Jan 2024, LacaK via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hi *,
I am translating "Trash variables" (from English to Slovak), but I can
not find appropriate words.
That's why I want to describe it in more words.
Is this correct: "Initialize local variables with random values" ? Or
better suggestion?
On Mon, 15 Jan 2024, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote:
I have been working on troubleshooting a command line FreePascal project for a
couple of weeks now and when I look in the project dir it is full of link files:
2021-09-12 10:2323 900 link.res
2024-01-15 00:3023 8
On Sun, 14 Jan 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
I just noticed it's possible to do @Byte in FPC. Are these 2 lines even
different? It doesn't exactly make sense to take the address of a type
identifier so I'm curious what this may mean.
var
b: Byte;
p: PByte;
begin
p := @Byte(b)
On Tue, 9 Jan 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
Do sealed classes actually call virtual methods statically or are they just for
compiler warnings?
The virtual methods are called exactly like other virtual methods.
Sealed just means you cannot create a descendant class. No optimizat
On Mon, 8 Jan 2024, Pique7 via fpc-pascal wrote:
Disregarding the RTF for a moment, you'd need to save the contents of the
text fields in a TStringlist instance in the 'afterscroll' event of the dataset.
This instance can then be used to create a data loop for a sub band
(using TFPReportUser
On Sun, 7 Jan 2024, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Quiz.
Which of below constant declarations are accepted by the compiler and what is
their value ?
const
ki1 = + 2;
ki2 = +2;
+x is a unary expression.
ki3
On Sun, 7 Jan 2024, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
- FPC compiled as is: 388976 B
- FPC compiled with full smartlinking: 55920 B
- FPC compiled with C linkage: 388760 B
- FPC compiled with full smartlinking and C linkage: 56792 B
Maybe it is a good idea to add these numbers to the above W
On Sun, 7 Jan 2024, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
Am 07.01.2024 um 10:01 schrieb Florian Klämpfl via fpc-pascal:
Am 06.01.2024 um 20:05 schrieb Matthew Phillips via fpc-pascal
:
I compiled the Hello World program from the docs and noticed that it's
435k. Compared to a lot of newer lan
On Fri, 5 Jan 2024, Tony Whyman via fpc-pascal wrote:
"Swiss computer scientist Professor Niklaus Wirth died on New Year's Day,
roughly six weeks before what would have been his 90th birthday."
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obituary/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsle
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Pique7 via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024 00:02:35 +0100 (CET)
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Mon, 1 Jan 2024, Pique7 via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have already asked this and related questions in the Lazarus Forum.
I want to improve
On Mon, 1 Jan 2024, Pique7 via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have already asked this and related questions in the Lazarus Forum.
I want to improve FPReport in order to use it for my project - if possible.
Some features are missing for this, e.g. automatic splitting of text across two
On Mon, 1 Jan 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Dec 30, 2023, at 3:18 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
wrote:
And try to avoid "for r in data" because it will create a copy for each element
in the list.
This seems more like bad compiler design than anything.
On Sun, 31 Dec 2023, Amir--- via fpc-pascal wrote:
On 12/31/23 02:46, Marco van de Voort via fpc-pascal wrote:
Op 31/12/2023 om 04:11 schreef Amir--- via fpc-pascal:
I compiled the code with `fpc -O3 -Sd -gv -g -gl ` and ran `valgrind`
on it (the output is attached). It does not look li
On Fri, 29 Dec 2023, Amir via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Dec 29, 2023 9:50 PM, Adriaan van Os wrote:
Amir--- via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a List of record, where the record has a WideString field.
> I have some code like the following:
>
On Wed, 27 Dec 2023, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
I wanted to write what I thought should be a simple procedure, just instead
of calling WRITELN() with some arguments,
call WRITELOG() with the same arguments that you would use to write to a
file, but my WRITELOG() procedure would
writ
On Mon, 25 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
This is not correct either, as it suggests that ( ... ) is correct. It is
not, if you use ... there must be other arguments present.
That is offending the reader: "You are to stupid
On Sun, 24 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
I added univ and documented it.
Something seems to have gone wrong with the defintion on page
212.
Corrected, thanks.
Having a better look, the rule defines just one
parameter. So
On Sun, 24 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
The following zip file contains the updated documentation:
http://downloads.freepascal.org/fpc/beta/3.2.4-rc1/docs/doc-pdf.zip
Besides correcting your remarks, I did a general overhaul:
- I
On Sun, 17 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
32. Are the set operators "include", "exclude" missing in the syntax
diagrams ? Is "><" missing (specifically) as set operator in the syntax
diagrams ?
Include/Exclude are not operators. They are procedu
On Sun, 17 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Sat, 16 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
More questions about the FreePascal Language Reference (version 3.2.0),
part 4
34. Are macpas LEAVE and CYCLE statements
On Sun, 17 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Another use of UNIV is type-compatibility of procedural parameters. For
example with
function BinaryFind
( theValuePtr : univ UnivPtr;
theFirstIndex : Int32;
theLastInd
On Sun, 17 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Sat, 16 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
More questions about the FreePascal Language Reference (version 3.2.0)
part 3
26. Am I correct to assume the following equivalents for rules that I
couldn't find a defin
On Sun, 17 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
37. Shouldn't the macpas "mwpascal" modifier be added to ?
call-modifiers = "register" | "cdecl" | "pascal" | "stdcall" |
On Sun, 17 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
28. The documentation for macpas "UNIV" is missing ?
I have no idea what this is ?
UNIV is macpas specific (as mentioned in Appendix D.6 of the Programmer's
Manual)
T
On Wed, 20 Dec 2023, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
I feel like this was addressed but I couldn't find any references. The program
below prints the following:
Initialize
Create
Finalize
Finalize
Why is Finalize called twice? I thought those were supposed to be called in
pairs with
On Sat, 16 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
More questions about the FreePascal Language Reference (version 3.2.0), part
4
34. Are macpas LEAVE and CYCLE statements undocumented ?
Yes.
35. Are macpas ellipsis (...) parameters undocumented ?
Yes.
36. Is the macpas R
On Sat, 16 Dec 2023, Wayne Sherman wrote:
On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 7:35 AM Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
Hm. Lot of corrections to do.. I'll be busy tonight :-)
Are these grammars in GIT so others can help by submitting merge
requests? That way you can spread the love :-)
Everything concern
On Sat, 16 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
More questions about the FreePascal Language Reference (version 3.2.0) part
3
26. Am I correct to assume the following equivalents for rules that I
couldn't find a definiton for:
formal-parameter-list =
On Sat, 16 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
More questions about the FreePascal Language Reference (version 3.2.0) part
2
17. For the following rules, I couldn't find a definition in the Language
Reference. Can I assume they can all be defined as ?
object-type-i
On Sat, 16 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
Thanks for the replies.
Please note that the syntax diagrams are NOT meant to be exhaustive.
They are an aid to explain the syntax. I strive to make them as correct as
possible, but they
On Sat, 16 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
More questions about the FreePascal Language Reference (version 3.2.0)
1. Section 17.1 defines a rule and
raise-statement = "raise" [ exception-instance [ exception-address ]
] .
exception-address = "at" exception-address [ ","
On Fri, 15 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
The fact that the semicolon before the else is optional ?
I don't see a semicolon in the formal syntax.
This works:
OK, than an optional semicolon must be added to the rule
exceptionhan
On Sat, 16 Dec 2023, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Dec 15, 2023, at 8:56 PM, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal
wrote:
What complicates things, is that many conflicting rules have the same name in
the Language Reference. For example, conceptually we have object-methods,
record-metho
On Fri, 15 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Fri, 15 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Note that the same ambiguity exists in the syntax (and
this is less well known)
exceptionhandlers = [ exception-handler
On Fri, 15 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Note that the same ambiguity exists in the syntax (and
this is less well known)
exceptionhandlers = [ exception-handler { ";" exception-handler } [ "ELSE"
statement-list ] | statement-list ] .
exception-handler = "ON" [ identifier
On Fri, 15 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
The Freepascal Language Reference (version 3.2.0) states in section 16.2
"As can be seen from the syntax diagram, a unit always consists of a
interface and an implementation part."
and
"Both the interface part or implementation p
On Thu, 14 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
I am looking in detail at the syntax diagrams in the Freepascal Language
Reference (version 3.2.0)
Section 13.2.2 discusses the case-statement. Translated to EBNF (WSN) the
syntax is
case-statement = "CASE" expression "OF" case
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