On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Virgo Pärna wrote:
> I did try googling and it appears, that in 64 bit Delphi XE2 uses THandle
> as a result type. Anyway, in the case of error, it returns
> INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE,
> which is DWORD(-1).
>So, under Windows it would be possible to use same co
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
> > IMHO the universal handle (for e.g. IPC related handles and file handles) is
> > not a portable concept to begin with.
>
> I think the concept of a handle as an opaque type is universal. What
> isn't safe is any assumption of consistent behavio
Marco van de Voort wrote:
IMHO the universal handle (for e.g. IPC related handles and file handles) is
not a portable concept to begin with.
I think the concept of a handle as an opaque type is universal. What
isn't safe is any assumption of consistent behaviour, e.g. that select()
may be ap
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:02:28 +0100 (CET), Michael Van Canneyt
wrote:
>
> Shortly said: No. The Delphi API is wrong; It should also return THandle
> (as that is what Windows CreateFile returns), but probably for historical
> reasons they still use Integer.
> With the advent of 64-bit delphi, th
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
Question: what is the best way to maintain code that must compile with
both FPC and Delphi2007?
The obvious solution is to use IFDEF and define a new type, say TMyHandle.
FPC's libraries however
In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> > Question: what is the best way to maintain code that must compile with
> > both FPC and Delphi2007?
> > The obvious solution is to use IFDEF and define a new type, say TMyHandle.
> > FPC's libraries however take care of many platform difference
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Juha Manninen wrote:
FileCreate and FileOpen return THandle with FPC but integer with Delphi2007.
Delphi defines THandle as LongWord but for some reason Integer is used instead.
With FPC on a 64-bit system THandle is 64- bit unsigned.
Question: what is the best way to mai
FileCreate and FileOpen return THandle with FPC but integer with Delphi2007.
Delphi defines THandle as LongWord but for some reason Integer is used instead.
With FPC on a 64-bit system THandle is 64- bit unsigned.
Question: what is the best way to maintain code that must compile with
both FPC and
