Re: [fpc-pascal] Serial port interrupts?

2007-10-10 Thread Tom Walsh
ake up the full attention of the kernel for any significant amount of time. Even under an interrupt driven service there would be jitter and an unpredictable response time before the service routine is actually run. TomW -- Tom Walsh - WN3L - Embedded Systems Consultant http://openha

Re: [fpc-pascal] OT: Rename for Pascal

2007-08-13 Thread Tom Walsh
uot;something of so little value that you can afford to give it away". Perhaps in German it has a different connotation, or in British English... Regards, TomW -- Tom Walsh - WN3L - Embedded Systems Consultant http://openhardware.net http://cyberiansoftware.com http://op

Re: [fpc-pascal] OT: Rename for Pascal

2007-08-13 Thread Tom Walsh
rate. If you renamed it to the "Open Source Pascal Compiler" it would be more accurate? Oh, and please, please change the name soon, ok? I have a lot more of these reports to write... Regards, TomW -- Tom Walsh - WN3L - Embedded Systems Consultant http://openhardware.n

[fpc-pascal] fpc make vs. gnu make

2007-07-12 Thread Tom Walsh
Is there any benefit to the fpc make? Regards, TomW -- Tom Walsh - WN3L - Embedded Systems Consultant http://openhardware.net http://cyberiansoftware.com http://openzipit.org "Windows? No thanks, I have

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to analyze a core dump?

2007-06-25 Thread Tom Walsh
ommunicates with pascal either through stdin/stdout redirection or with a socket. Bye Nope, it is 'gdb -c '. Sorry :-( TomW -- Tom Walsh - WN3L - Embedded Systems Consultant http://openhardware.net http://cyberiansoftware.com http://openzipit.or

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to analyze a core dump?

2007-06-25 Thread Tom Walsh
ommunicates with pascal either through stdin/stdout redirection or with a socket. Bye IIRC, it is 'gcc -c ' TomW -- Tom Walsh - WN3L - Embedded Systems Consultant http://openhardware.net http://cyberiansoftware.com http://openzipit.or

Re: [fpc-pascal] Metaware

2007-06-19 Thread Tom Walsh
Tom Walsh wrote: Mark Wood wrote: I have found that there are some functional differences that Metaware has over fpc, one example is the yield() function which returns the intermediate result of a function call. ? '?' indeed! I am fascinated! What does yield

Re: [fpc-pascal] Metaware

2007-06-19 Thread Tom Walsh
se, this is definately on a unix box. TomW -- Tom Walsh - WN3L - Embedded Systems Consultant http://openhardware.net http://cyberiansoftware.com http://openzipit.org "Windows? No thanks, I have work to do..."

Re: [fpc-pascal] Metaware

2007-06-19 Thread Tom Walsh
7;t write financial code... TomW -- Tom Walsh - WN3L - Embedded Systems Consultant http://openhardware.net http://cyberiansoftware.com http://openzipit.org "Windows? No thanks, I have work to do..."

Re: [fpc-pascal] Metaware

2007-06-18 Thread Tom Walsh
nagement will keep shoveling money into it... TomW -- Tom Walsh - WN3L - Embedded Systems Consultant http://openhardware.net http://cyberiansoftware.com http://openzipit.org "Windows? No thanks, I have work to do..." __

[fpc-pascal] Metaware

2007-06-18 Thread Tom Walsh
tion); type int = LongInt; program libdos4_unit; with defstd4, dospriv; var KeySaveChar: char; function DosKeyCharHave: boolean; begin return(FromC.rdchk(0) = 1); end; == snip = Anyhow, any thoughts that someone may have would be greatly appreciated!