Re: [fpc-pascal] "Hello world" syscalls

2020-01-08 Thread Vincent Snijders via fpc-pascal
Op do 9 jan. 2020 om 00:47 schreef Graeme Geldenhuys < mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk>: > On 07/01/2020 1:28 am, Vojtěch Čihák via fpc-pascal wrote: > > I found this article: https://drewdevault.com/2020/01/04/Slow.html > > but FPC is missing, so I wrote simple: > > On a side note, and for comparis

Re: [fpc-pascal] try..finally vs interfaces performance

2016-04-14 Thread Vincent Snijders
2016-04-14 10:50 GMT+02:00 Michael Van Canneyt : > > > On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Mazola Winstrol wrote: > > Recently i did some maintenance in a code of a colleague. I realized that >> he designed several classes with interface support so he do not need to >> protect the code blocks with try..finally t

Re: [fpc-pascal] Wiki etc.- where?

2016-02-25 Thread Vincent Snijders
2016-02-25 12:39 GMT+01:00 Mark Morgan Lloyd < markmll.fpc-pas...@telemetry.co.uk>: > http://www.freepascal.org/ points to http://wiki.freepascal.org/ for the > wiki, which is giving me a permanent 403 "Forbidden". > > Anybody know what's going on? > I don't get such error. Last week a mediawiki

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Unicode / CodePage aware strings

2015-12-10 Thread Vincent Snijders
2015-12-10 11:18 GMT+01:00 Graeme Geldenhuys : > On 2015-12-10 09:50, Jonas Maebe wrote: > > > > Graeme Geldenhuys wrote on Thu, 10 Dec 2015: > > Tried to compile that with FPC (yes, I included the new "Character" unit > in uses clause) and I get a couple of compiler errors. I tried first > with

Re: [fpc-pascal] [fpc-other] FPC Pestering Peacock (3.0.0) release

2015-11-27 Thread Vincent Snijders
2015-11-26 22:44 GMT+01:00 Jonas Maebe : > On 26/11/15 22:39, Florian Klämpfl wrote: > >> Am 26.11.2015 um 22:31 schrieb Jonas Maebe: >> >>> It just got posted on Slashdot too: >>> >>> http://developers.slashdot.org/story/15/11/26/1544243/free-pascal-compiler-300-is-out-adds-support-for-16-bit-ms-

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC fails to build rev 31874

2015-09-28 Thread Vincent Snijders
2015-09-28 11:08 GMT+02:00 Anthony Walter : > FPC revision 31874 is failing to build with the following error: > > pexpr.pas(3990,48) Error: Incompatible type for arg no. 1: Got "tnode", > expected "tsym" > > Last Changed Author: nickysn > Last Changed Date: 2015-09-27 20:17:53 -0400 (Sun, 27 Sep

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiler error passing a Property as a parameter

2014-06-09 Thread Vincent Snijders
2014-06-08 21:50 GMT+02:00 Graeme Geldenhuys : > Hi, > > I think it was FPC 2.6.0 that changed the language rules about > Properties. You can't pass them directly as a var parameter, can't > assign to a property of a property etc. > > Anyway, somebody recently asked my why this was implemented, a

Re: [fpc-pascal] Typinfo incompatibilities between FPC and Delphi

2014-05-31 Thread Vincent Snijders
2014-05-31 11:48 GMT+02:00 Sven Barth : > On 31.05.2014 05:53, Kenneth Cochran wrote: > >> I'm attempting to port GExperts from Delphi to Lazaurus and noticed the >> definition of TPropInfo differs from Delphi's. >> >> In FPC's TPropInfo the PropType field is PTypeInfo whereas in Delphi it >> is P

Re: [fpc-pascal] Announcing PUMA Repository

2013-12-13 Thread Vincent Snijders
2013/12/13 Johannes W. Dietrich > Sorry, I cannot understand your message. Which software do I need to > decode it? > > > I have no idea what went wrong. I meant to say: Maybe you can add it to the wiki too in this place: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Components_and_Code_examples#Packages.2

Re: [fpc-pascal] Announcing PUMA Repository

2013-12-12 Thread Vincent Snijders
2013/12/13 Johannes W. Dietrich > With immediate effect the PUMA Repository (Pascal Units for Medical > Applications) is available from SourceForge and berlios. The PUMA > Repository is a collection of Pascal units for medical informatics. It is > compatible with and was developed for Lazarus an

Re: [fpc-pascal] CompareMem documentation

2013-11-14 Thread Vincent Snijders
2013/11/14 Juha Manninen > Documentation here: > http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/rtl/sysutils/comparemem.html > > says that the function returns <0, 0 or >0 > while actually it returns a Boolean. > > Those docs are outdated: see up to date docs at: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rt

Re: [fpc-pascal] math round vs banker's round

2013-08-14 Thread Vincent Snijders
2013/8/14 Sven Barth > I wanted to write "x.5" instead of "0.5" :) > > > For any digit x, it still can be represented exactly in binary representation ... Vincent ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/m

Re: [fpc-pascal] Trunk seems to break again!?!?

2013-05-27 Thread Vincent Snijders
2013/5/27 Joost van der Sluis > > It uses the pyacc that is already installed on the system. So unless > that version is installed using fpmake, this problem did already exist. > > But the underlying problem is that h2pas.pas is generated again. That > should not be necessary. It is probably fixe

Re: [fpc-pascal] Trunk seems to break again!?!?

2013-05-27 Thread Vincent Snijders
2013/5/27 Jonas Maebe > > On 27 May 2013, at 09:58, Vincent Snijders wrote: > > I got a different problem on poerpc-darwin with r24621: >> https://fpcbuildserver.firmos.**at/job/buildfpc_branch/** >> platform=powerpc-darwin/902/**console<https://fpcbuildserver.fi

Re: [fpc-pascal] Trunk seems to break again!?!?

2013-05-27 Thread Vincent Snijders
2013/5/27 Reinier Olislagers > On Linux x64 with a clean fpc directory, using fpcup: > svn info: > ... > Last Changed Author: joost > Last Changed Rev: 24622 > Last Changed Date: 2013-05-26 22:51:41 +0200 (Sun, 26 May 2013) > > ... > make -C linux all > make[4]: Entering directory `/home/pascalde

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC trunk r224549 needs more incantations?

2013-05-21 Thread Vincent Snijders
2013/5/22 Reinier Olislagers > r24549 | joost | 2013-05-21 21:58:14 +0200 (di, 21 mei 2013) | 1 line > > * Removed unused unit jarparamparser.pas > > Perhaps some (fp(c))make regeneration or something? > > Building it I see: > make.exe[3]: Leaving directory `C:/development/fpctrunk/utils/fpcres'

[fpc-pascal] Re: [FPC 0024437]: can not build RTL with 2.7.1 compiler

2013-05-16 Thread Vincent Snijders
-- > (0067718) Vincent Snijders (manager) - 2013-05-16 18:39 > http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=24437#c67718 > -- > That compiler is too old,

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Hashes and CRCs

2013-04-09 Thread Vincent Snijders
2013/4/7 Reinier Olislagers > Apart from that, the wiki already has a huge list of components etc. If > dpcrypt on Laz CCR is missing, it should be added. > You can find it at: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/DCPcrypt Vincent ___ fpc-pascal maillist

Re: [fpc-pascal] Hashes and CRCs

2013-04-05 Thread Vincent Snijders
2013/4/5 Mark Morgan Lloyd > I agree, Google completely overlooked it when I was searching last night. > I don't see why it should be put into CCR etc. when it's readily available > from the original author, unless of course he's chosen to do so. > > Because at that time it was not fpc/lazarus co

Re: [fpc-pascal] x86 asm bswap

2013-02-06 Thread Vincent Snijders
2013/2/6 Juha Manninen : > I read that bswap is used for converting big-endian (Intel) format to > little-endian (Motorolla etc.) format. > However this a an old Delphi app, Win32 only. I am confused. Intel i386 is little endian. Motorola Powerpc is big endian. Vincent ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.6.2 rc1

2012-11-27 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/11/28 Bart > On 11/27/12, Pierre Free Pascal wrote: > > > I have uploaded a fpc-2.6.2rc1.i386-win95.exe > > ,in the same directory beta/2.6.2-rc1/i386-win32, > > Sorry to say, but I cannot find that file on > ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/beta/2.6.2-rc1/i386-win32/ > > It only lists:

Re: [fpc-pascal] Change Endian of String types

2012-11-26 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/11/26 ik > Hello, > > Is there a way to convert endian of a string (from little to big and > vice versa) ? > What kind of string you want to convert? For example a PChar is trivial. Vincent ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.o

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Free Pascal 2.6.2 rc1

2012-11-13 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/11/13 Reinier Olislagers > > I noticed the i386-win32/ directory has wince+win64 installers as well > as the i386 ones. > Maybe these could/should be moved to their own directories arm-wince and > x86_64-win64? > Of course, the main thing is that they're there ;) > I think they are win32 to

Re: [fpc-pascal] releasing commercial components as PPU files

2012-10-22 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/10/22 : > > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Vincent Snijders wrote: > >> I am more optimistic than Michael. Because the same source is used, >> the CRC is the same and no recompile is done. > > > It also depends on the date of the .ppu ? I don't think so. B

Re: [fpc-pascal] releasing commercial components as PPU files

2012-10-22 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/10/22 Graeme Geldenhuys : > On 2012-10-22 14:36, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: >> >> I am not sure whether they use the binary release of fpc, or if they compile >> their own for e.g. windows. If it is the latter, you're in problems. > > > Anybody from the Lazarus development team that can

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: problems compiling FPC

2012-10-17 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/10/17 Marco van de Voort : > D:\repo\fpc>make all > makefile:2717: *** The only supported starting compiler version is 2.6.0. > You are trying to build with 2.7.1. If you are absolutely sure that the > current > compiler is built from the exact same version/revision, you can try to use > OVER

Re: [fpc-pascal] problems compiling FPC

2012-10-16 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/10/16 : > The starting compiler is also from SVN (21955). > On 16 okt '12, mar...@stack.nl wrote: > > It should be 2.6.0, and nothing else. Then the solution is simple, use fpc 2.6.0. Vincent ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Error: Can't take the address of constant expressions

2012-09-25 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/9/25 Bernd : > 2012/9/25 patspiper : >> procedure test; >> begin >> Move(MyClass1.Ref.Data^, MyClass2.Ref.Data^, 1); >> end; > > and if you cast it to some other pointer type before dereferencing the > error goes away: > > procedure test; > begin > Move(MyClass1.Ref.Data^, PByte(MyClass2.R

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Xcode

2012-09-17 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/9/17 Jonas Maebe : > Apple's idiosyncrasy of the season. All we can do is document the latest > changes on the download page (a real problem is however that we can't > document this in a visible way on the sourceforge afaik). You can upload a file called README.txt (possibly readme.txt works

Re: [fpc-pascal] Windows installer fails to add fpc binaries to PATH

2012-09-14 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/9/14 Andrew Pennebaker : >> It did work perfectly on my Win7 laptop. >> You might want to have"administrator privileges whilst installing >> (IIRC modifying the global PATH variable requires administrator >> privileges). > > > I do have administrator privileges, and the installer could be buil

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Windows installer fails to add fpc binaries to PATH

2012-09-13 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/9/14 leledumbo : > I don't even remember the installer ever tries to add something to PATH... > > Still, it does. Vincent ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Constant of 2D array

2012-09-11 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/9/11 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho : > Hello, > > Can I write constants of a 2D array? I am trying to convert some C++ > code which uses this ... so far I tryed: > > const number_return_map: array[0..7][0..7] of U8 = const number_return_map: array[0..7,0..7] of byte = Vincent _

Re: [fpc-pascal] Wiki search broken?

2012-08-27 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/8/27 Andrew Haines : > On 08/27/12 00:27, Vincent Snijders wrote: >> >> 2012/8/27 Andrew Haines : >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Search seems to be broken for me on the wiki >>> >> >> What was your search word? >> > >

Re: [fpc-pascal] Wiki search broken?

2012-08-26 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/8/27 Andrew Haines : > Hi, > > Search seems to be broken for me on the wiki > What was your search word? Vincent ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] wiki down again?

2012-08-21 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/8/20 Chadisko : > is the freepascal wiki down again? > It is working OK now. Vincent ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Problems with assigning pointers

2012-04-10 Thread Vincent Snijders
Op 10 april 2012 22:06 heeft Darius Blaszyk het volgende geschreven: > Here's a minimal example that has the bug. First of all the first output is > wrong as it says 0,50 instead of 20,50 (so the x item is overwritten). The > second printed output differs from the first, so again the x item is

[fpc-pascal] wiki on a new server

2012-03-23 Thread Vincent Snijders
Hi, The Free Pascal and Lazarus wiki has been moved to a new server. Also the wiki software has been upgraded to the latest Mediawiki version. Because porting the custom Free Pascal skin to the new version was too time consuming the default monoskin is used now. Therefore you will notice changes i

Re: [fpc-pascal] Where and how is the FPC documentation created?

2012-02-29 Thread Vincent Snijders
Op 29 februari 2012 18:57 heeft Frank Church het volgende geschreven: > > How often do you update it? See: http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/logs/fpcdocs-trunk.log (also available with viewvc). Vincent ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepasc

Re: [fpc-pascal] Where and how is the FPC documentation created?

2012-02-29 Thread Vincent Snijders
Op 29 februari 2012 16:29 heeft Frank Church het volgende geschreven: > 4. Is there some page where previous versions are available? > > PS. After some searching questions 2, 3 and 4 are answered - > http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcdocs/. or: http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/?root=do

Re: [fpc-pascal] Request for Win32 bootstrap compiler on ftp.freepascal.org/

2012-01-27 Thread Vincent Snijders
Op 27 januari 2012 14:00 heeft Marco van de Voort het volgende geschreven: > One can try to cut corners, but that will only end up having to install the > release anyway at the first hickup. I'd expect the utils in fpcbuild/trunk to be able to build fpc/trunk better than the release ones, otherwi

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Installing FPC 2.5.1 in Mac OS X

2012-01-05 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/1/5 Marco van de Voort : > In our previous episode, shiruba2012 said: >> I had the same issue when specifying a specific compiler in Lazarus.  I >> changed the directory back to >> >> /usr/local/bin/ppc386 >> >> and it worked fine.  I almost created another SymLink (as you did), and >> since t

Re: [fpc-pascal] debian control files for fpc

2011-12-18 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/12/18 David Emerson : > I'd like to roll my own fpc-2.4.4 .deb for in-house development > > The lazarus sources seem to include a debian directory with all the control > files, which is wonderful! > > Where can I find debian control files for fpc? In the fpcbuild svn repository: http://svn.fr

Re: [fpc-pascal] Testing applications with FPCUnit

2011-12-16 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/12/16 luciano de souza : > Hello listers, > > Navigating in FPC source codes, I found fpcunit. It's really > wonderful. With the tTestCase class, we can  generate a report with > the success or the failure of our tests. > > Is there documentation on the usage of fpcunit? What is the best way >

Re: [fpc-pascal] Why is Random(255) some 529x slower compared to Delphi 7?

2011-12-09 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/12/7 Graeme Geldenhuys : > Hi, > > I did a simple GetTickCount() timing around this loop. Delphi executes > the loop in 20 ticks. FPC 2.6.0-rc2 takes 10585 ticks The outer > loop runs 200400 iterations. The types for BitValue, ByteValue and > RandSeed is of type Byte. > > 01  for Index :=

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Why is Random(255) some 529x slower compared to Delphi7?

2011-12-08 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/12/9 Graeme Geldenhuys : > On 8 December 2011 21:39, Florian Klämpfl wrote: >> Can you please post your test program? On my core 2 duo it is only 10 >> times slower. > > Attached in the first post. Here is my console output for compiling > and running that test program. Can you compile the f

Re: [fpc-pascal] Why is Random(255) some 529x slower compared to Delphi 7?

2011-12-08 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/12/8 Graeme Geldenhuys : > On 8 December 2011 09:25, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: >> >> And what if it changes in the future to being slow and statistically >> strong, we change again too? > > The random number generator can be implemented in such a way that the > backend generator is us

Re: [fpc-pascal] EnumToString

2011-11-01 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/11/1 Juha Manninen : >>  WriteStr (S, N); > > Thanks guys! > WriteStr() was the function I was looking for. > I found some places in Lazarus code where it is used but not many. Martin's > debugger code has some. > I think many lookup string arrays in Lazarus code could be replaces > with Write

Re: [fpc-pascal] Premature end of headers using fcl-web and POST

2011-10-31 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/11/1 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho : > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Michael Van Canneyt > wrote: >>> So it seems that you MUST set the contenttype either to >>> MULTIPART/FORM-DATA or APPLICATION/X-WWW-FORM-URLENCODED. >> >> Yes, this is as per the HTML specs. > > They actually prohibit sen

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to insert a record and get the primary key with sqldb?

2011-10-24 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/10/24 : > > > On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Vincent Snijders wrote: > >> 2011/10/22 Graeme Geldenhuys : >>> >>> 1) Use a GUID created at the time you do the Insert. This also means >>> you can do Master/Detail records with no problems at all. >>

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to insert a record and get the primary key with sqldb?

2011-10-24 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/10/22 Graeme Geldenhuys : > 1) Use a GUID created at the time you do the Insert. This also means > you can do Master/Detail records with no problems at all. I consider this bad advice. GUID are bad primary keys, because of their size and the fact they are not sequential by design. Vincent __

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc has trouble with array types

2011-10-18 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/10/18 Sven Barth : > Am 18.10.2011 11:12, schrieb Sven Barth: >> >> type >> TByteArray = array of Byte; >> >> function XlatPrime(): TByteArray; >> begin >> XlatPrime := TByteArray.Create( >> $64, $73, $66, $64, $3b, $6b, $66, $6f, >> $41, $2c, $2e, $69, $79, $65, $77, $72, >> $6b, $6c, $64, $4

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc has trouble with array types

2011-10-17 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/10/18 Andrew Pennebaker : > But, but, the docs imply that this is the syntax for a function that returns > an array of bytes. > Where in the docs did you read this? Vincent ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.fr

Re: [fpc-pascal] More Filter Madness

2011-10-14 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/10/14 Graeme Geldenhuys : > On 14/10/2011 08:49, Vincent Snijders wrote: >> >> Depending on how many numbers you read and the difference between >> > > The original poster's questions sounds very much like a homework > assignment, which you have no

Re: [fpc-pascal] More Filter Madness

2011-10-13 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/10/14 Ko Hashiguchi : > Mine is more of a programming problem, rather than one native to Pascal, but > here goes: > > I have a text file with many Double values. Looking more or less like below, > but with hundreds of entries... > > 1.5 > 3.25 > 7.54 > 10.33 > 2.22 > > The values listed are on

[fpc-pascal] Reusing a TProcess object (issue 19997)

2011-10-11 Thread Vincent Snijders
Hi, Is it allowed to execute a TProcess object more than once? And if yes, different command lines be used? The reason I ask is issue 19997, each invocation of the compiler in Lazarus leaks a process handle and a thread handle on windows. (not tested on other OS-es). If is it allowed to re-use T

Re: [fpc-pascal] Virtual inline methods

2011-08-18 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/8/18 : > > I'm porting a piece of code from C++ and there they use virtual inline > methods. I tried it in FPC but it accepts either virtual OR inline methods. > Is this a bug, or a feature that I don't understand enough about? At first I didn't understand how a virtual function can be inlin

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpmake exception

2011-08-18 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/8/18 Henry Vermaak : > Hello > > While building fpc on my arm netbook, I found this crash in fpmake: > > EAccessViolation : Access violation >  $00027448  FIXPATH,  line 1737 of src/fpmkunit.pp >  $00039E24  TTARGET__SETNAME,  line 5577 of src/fpmkunit.pp >  $00027F24  TTARGETS__ADDEXAMPLEPROG

Re: Re[2]: [fpc-pascal] TimSort

2011-05-24 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/5/24 José Mejuto : > Hello FPC-Pascal, > > Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 1:06:43 PM, you wrote: > >  >> Why is TimSort specially interesting to you ? > MG>  I need a fast stable sort, so multiple sorts work as expected (contrary > to > MG> QuickSort). > MG>  TimSort is a candidate. > > That's exactl

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Register variables slowing down floating point operations

2011-05-13 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/5/13 Marcos Douglas : > So, not to use the option -O in i386? > When I compile FPC sources, on Win32 XP SP3, using make, the option is used. > > I'm confusing now... Did you try one of the -Cf options to enable MMX on i386? Vincent ___ fpc-pascal m

Re: [fpc-pascal] Installing FPC 2.5.1 in Mac OS X

2011-04-15 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/4/15 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho : > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Jonas Maebe > wrote: >> And does it work when you manually execute it? > > As in just typing: fpcres ? > IIRC, with -va or -vd, ppc386 shows the fpcres command line. Can you use that? Vincent

Re: [fpc-pascal] Is there a problem on the lazarus mailing list?

2011-04-12 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/4/12 Luca Olivetti : > Sorry for the off-topic, but I sent a message yesterday to the lazarus > mailing list and it hasn't appeared. > In fact there aren't new messages since last Sunday. > Does anybody know if is there a problem with the lazarus list server? I restarted mailman, and that see

Re: [fpc-pascal] Is there a problem on the lazarus mailing list?

2011-04-12 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/4/12 Juha (gmail) : > Luca Olivetti kirjoitti tiistai, 12. huhtikuuta 2011 10:20:04: >> Sorry for the off-topic, but I sent a message yesterday to the lazarus >> mailing list and it hasn't appeared. >> In fact there aren't new messages since last Sunday. >> Does anybody know if is there a prob

Re: [fpc-pascal] Convert error hex string to cardinal....

2011-01-17 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/1/17 Bo Berglund : > I have encountered a conversion error using FPC 2.4.2 with Lazarus > 0.9.29 as follows: > > var >  t: Int64; >  v: string; > begin >  ... >  t := StrToInt('$' + v); > > This gives an exception "invalid integer". At this moment v is > '577B4D58A51A0EE', which combined with

Re: [fpc-pascal] The new Delphi 2010 RTTI

2011-01-10 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/1/10 alexv...@mail.ru : >> > But I want packages to be binary portable between OS (on target processor > architecture) I don't think that is feasible, unless you don't use any OS features. Vincent ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freep

Re: [fpc-pascal] Help building fpc svn Win64

2011-01-05 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/1/5 Marco van de Voort : >> >> I would not build the fp ide. > > Does that remark apply to 2.4.x or 2.5.1? 2.5.1, because AFAIK, Pierre's work that requires the external linker on win64 is done in trunk only and not yet merged to 2.4.2. Vincent ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] Help building fpc svn Win64

2011-01-05 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/1/5 Marco van de Voort : >> This snapshot is missing the cmp.exe file, so I had used the win32 >> one. After an error about not found as.exe I had used the win32 >> version too, but now I'm stuck at an ld.exe problem. The win32 version >> of ld.exe does not have a "pei-x86-64" target so the ma

Re: [fpc-pascal] Unicode strings

2010-12-31 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/12/31 Juha Manninen : > UTF-16 needs codepages, too. I don't think so. What would a code page be used for with UTF-16. UTF-16 itself is already an encoding, implictly stating one and only one code page, if it can be named a code page. Vincent ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] Progress indication while linking

2010-12-28 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/12/28 Mark Morgan Lloyd : > Jonas Maebe wrote: >> >> On 28 Dec 2010, at 11:04, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: >> >>> Is it possible to get any sort of activity indication that confirms that >>> the linker is actually doing something useful, rather than just sitting >>> there locked up? >> >> No, the

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI powered by OpenGL

2010-12-20 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/12/20 : >> But why is it not possible to integrate this with the regular fpGUI ? >> Can you explain in a couple of sentences ? > > Can't remember having said that it was impossible with the current approach. > In fact it is perfectly doable. However (free)glut and opengl are already > availab

Re: [fpc-pascal] Please update ubuntu repository

2010-12-12 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/12/12 Darius Blaszyk : > Hi, > > When updating 2.4.0 to 2.4.2 I noticed that the Ubuntu repository on > www.hu.freepascal.org, has not been updated yet. Could someone please > upload the latest versions there? Or is this something experimental > only? > It will be updated by me, when there is

Re: [fpc-pascal] Suggestion about ability to pass local procedures as variables

2010-11-30 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/11/30 Max Vlasov : > Hi, > > it appears recently several pieces if knowledge came to me, I understood how > anonymous functions (aka closures) work :) and the fact that GNU Pascal > allows passing local procedure as variables. I mentioned them together > because as many I don't like the closur

Re: [fpc-pascal] Building FPC trunk on XP win64

2010-11-26 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/11/26 Birger Jansen : >> I'll see if I can find the missing cmp.exe in 64 bit version or try with the >> 32 >> bit version. > > Copying the cmp.exe that comes with the Lazarus 32 bit installer to a 64 bit > installation worked. > Can this file be included in the 64 bit installer to prevent n

Re: [fpc-pascal] bugtracker questions/report (where to send)

2010-11-26 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/11/26 Max Vlasov : > Hi, > > I have two questions: > - Is everything is ok with "steps to reproduce" field in fpc bugtracker? It > never show at the issue view. Hope it saves and and at least the developers > are seeing it. It is visible in the advanced view, not in the simple view. Vincent

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Cross-compiling with FPC 2.5.1

2010-10-26 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/10/26 patspiper > The buildcrossbinutils.sh script produces i686-mingw32- binaries only (no > i686-cygwin-), and yet, FPC 2.4.2 cross compiles without any problem. What > is different about 2.5.1? > Probably 2.5.1 contains assembler files, so it needs an assembler, 2.4.2 only pascal source

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Posting to the list via GMAIL

2010-10-09 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/10/9 Bo Berglund : > So it seems like the GMANE maintainers have either not understood or not > reconfigured this NG with the new setting. > I suggest you keep an eye on http://gmane.org/info.php?group=gmane.comp.compilers.free-pascal.general The list is still marked read-only. In the gmane

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to get to Range Check Error location

2010-10-02 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/10/2 Juha Manninen (gmail) : > The last 3 lines practically say Lazarus has a memory corruption or leak or > something, while it does not have. It is OK not that I know it. True heap size : 1048576 True free heap : 1924768 Should be : 1048576 It just says that heaptr didn't calculate the Tru

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to get to Range Check Error location

2010-10-02 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/10/2 Jonas Maebe : > Because of "-gh" I am getting the following output always when closing > Lazarus. Only the numbers change with Lazarus versions and compile options. > > Likely it is not a "real" error. Vincent Snijders suspected it is a bug in > the &

Re: [fpc-pascal] Initializing records and other complicated structures

2010-09-28 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/9/28 Jürgen Hestermann : > Sven Barth schrieb: >> >> It's enough code, because FillByte (and others) are defined with a "var" >> parameter and such the hint (not a warning) won't go away. >> It's an old topic already and we have just to live with it (regarding the >> Fill* functions). ^^ > > B

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: What is wrong with this enum and array related code

2010-09-12 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/9/12 Frank Church : > I need to elaborate more on this code > > On this line > > d := stTypes[i - Ord(low(stType))]; > > since stTypes is an array, I expect stTypes[n], with n being 1 to 4,  to > retrieve an array value and as 'i - Ord(low(stType)) evaluates to integer it > should compile but

Re: [fpc-pascal] What is wrong with this enum and array related code

2010-09-12 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/9/12 Frank Church : > program testnums; > //{$APPTYPE CONSOLE} > > uses >   Classes, SysUtils; > type >    stType = (stLite := -100, stDb, stBothLite, stBothDb); //settings > location Type >    stTypes = Array [stType] of integer; > var >  d : stType; >  s : string; >  i : integer; > begin >  

Re: [fpc-pascal] Anything like TRichView?

2010-05-26 Thread Vincent Snijders
CA Gorski schreef: Is there anything like TRichView (www.trichview.com) for Lazarus/FPC? Doesn't need to be as complex as that one. Can be much simpler, but TMemo is too simple. ;) Maybe: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/RichMemo Vincent ___ fpc-p

Re: [fpc-pascal] UTF8Decode

2010-05-11 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: Luis Fernando Del Aguila Mejía het geskryf: Why WideString is not equal to Unicodestring in Windows? WideString is reference counted (for Windows COM reasons). UnicodeString is pretty much the same as WideString, but not reference counted. I am pretty sure it is

Re: [fpc-pascal] deprecated syntax is inconsistent.

2010-04-29 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: On 29 April 2010 21:57, Vincent Snijders wrote: I don't see the issue, it gets a bit more complicated, but not impossible. I am just bad in ascii graphics, but I can imagine how it looks like. I'm sure Michael will welcome your patch, and I'll be

Re: [fpc-pascal] deprecated syntax is inconsistent.

2010-04-29 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: On 29 April 2010 17:23, Marco van de Voort wrote: Its got nothing to do with the latex package. Trying to describe the inconsistent syntax of Hint Directives in a syntax diagram (like used in the FPC Language Reference doc) just seems impossible. From what I can conclu

Re: [fpc-pascal] Question about Deleting elements in Dynamic Array

2010-04-27 Thread Vincent Snijders
Bihar Anwar schreef: I've tried to use Move() instead of Copy(). Any objection with the following code? Yes, at first glance without much thinking, I don't think it is safe. Did you think through the consequences of copying reference counted types (ansistring in this case presumably)? v

Re: [fpc-pascal] What project management tool does FPC developers use?

2010-04-27 Thread Vincent Snijders
Florian Klaempfl schreef: Frank Church schrieb: What project management tool does FPC and Lazarus developers use? I mean besides mantis for bug tracking? None, simply because we don't have any time budgets/resources but people are working as soon as they find time. I am thinking along the li

Re: [fpc-pascal] State of FPC docs.rant

2010-04-22 Thread Vincent Snijders
Joseph Montanez schreef: In the end I think automated documentation is bad, and thats really what I see with the current state of FPC docs. It might allow better ability to stay sync with the current release but not allowing _easy_ social interaction to expand those docs, I think it is a big mi

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC static linking of zlib

2010-04-13 Thread Vincent Snijders
Matthias Klumpp schreef: I'm not sure if some version of zlib was translated to pascal; therefore having the same security issues, or if it was written from scratch, so that it won't have those security issues? Not sure... I should say that WinFF and easyMp3Gain do not use any ZLib function, so

Re: [fpc-pascal] New wiki, ftp and mailing list server planned

2010-03-13 Thread Vincent Snijders
Florian Klaempfl schreef: As you might have noticed, the server running the wiki (lazarus and fpc), the mailing lists (lazarus and fpc) Just the fpc mailing lists. The Lazarus mailing lists are hosted on the same server that hosts the lazarus website and forum. and being ftp master (fpc and

Re: [fpc-pascal] New wiki, ftp and mailing list server planned

2010-03-13 Thread Vincent Snijders
Florian Klaempfl schreef: Flávio Etrusco schrieb: >From the wiki, it's more interesting to pay in Euros, right? Is the German PayPal only a localized version, or are they separate corporations and I'd have to create a different account? And is there a way to use the German site in English? ;)

Re: [fpc-pascal] Thread IDs

2010-02-18 Thread Vincent Snijders
Wimpie Nortje schreef: Jonas Maebe wrote: On 18 Feb 2010, at 16:35, Wimpie Nortje wrote: What is the difference between GetThreadID() and GetCurrentThreadID()? There is a threadvar called "threadid" in the system unit. When a new thread is started, GetCurrentThreadID is called to obtain

Re: [fpc-pascal] Locating the users HOME folder

2010-02-01 Thread Vincent Snijders
Michael Van Canneyt schreef: No. But it has been a regular request to add this to sysutils. Please file a feature request in the bug tracker, so we won't forget it. (preferably with implementation patch ;) ) Are you sure? Peter Vreman asked for a $HOME macro in lazarus and Mattias implement

Re: [fpc-pascal] [OT] which editor - emacs?

2010-01-12 Thread Vincent Snijders
David Emerson schreef: on multiple projects at once. Especially, e.g., if I want to test some feature or idea in a new little project, I tend to just do that in a separate editor rather than opening another group of lazarus windows or closing the big project I'm working on. For such use cas

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-03 Thread Vincent Snijders
Doug Chamberlin schreef: Florian Klaempfl wrote: Doug Chamberlin schrieb: Anyone know how soon this will be incorporated into the tar file that is posted as the latest 2.4 download? Never. 2.4.0 is out and finished. OK. anyone know when this fix will be incorporated into the next tarball p

Re: [fpc-pascal] Const Array Length (was Dynamic Array Length)

2010-01-02 Thread Vincent Snijders
Jürgen Hestermann schreef: Juha Manninen schrieb: const a: array of string = ('aaa', 'bbb', 'ccc'); It looks like a dynamic array, but obviously is not dynamic because it is constant. :-) The indexing would start from 0 like with dynamic arrays. It would not break the existing syntax and

Re: [fpc-pascal] RE: Possibly a dumb question.... (Jennifer Usher)

2009-12-29 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: 2009/12/29 Joost van der Sluis : Please try again first using a recent snapshot. I think this bug is solved long ago.. I don't have the problem under Linux, and I used Lazarus SVN of yesterday (which I think is recent enough). I don't know how to override the '/tmp'

Re: [fpc-pascal] RE: Possibly a dumb question.... (Jennifer Usher)

2009-12-28 Thread Vincent Snijders
Jürgen Hestermann schreef: I have been trying to compile a simple test program and I keep getting the following errors: c:\lazarus\fpc\2.2.4\bin\i386-win32\windres.exe: can't open file `project1.manifest': No such file or directory I am about a week ahead of you with Lazarus, and I struggled wit

Re: [fpc-pascal] Forum merger

2009-12-18 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: I really don't care where projects are created - I think SourceForge or GitHub are more visible and accessible by all. So that would be my first choice anyway. I really don't care either. The most important thing now is that (at least) one person actually starts *co

Re: [fpc-pascal] Forum merger

2009-12-17 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: I agree with Mattias. I didn't think Mattias commented on this thread. Do you mean Matthias, who suggested to use Git on the FPC svn server? Vincent ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://list

Re: [fpc-pascal] Forum merger

2009-12-17 Thread Vincent Snijders
Matthias Klumpp schreef: server, this is not really a problem. Why don't use Git this time? A. Because there no Git Server on the FPC SVN server. It's making code review and code merging from other sources a lot easier. I don't understand what you mean here. Vincent __

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