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
