Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem

2004-09-26 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Jonas Maebe wrote: On 24 sep 2004, at 18:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: testData = record testIndex : packed array [0..12] of integer; end; Wouldn't that solve any alignment problems ? Or doesn't free pascal have a 'packed' directive ? It does, but it only works for individual records. It's igno

Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem

2004-09-26 Thread Olle Raab
04-09-24 08.49, skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED] följande: > > - Original Message - > From: "Olle Raab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 8:10 AM > Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem > &g

Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem

2004-09-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message - From: "Olle Raab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 8:10 AM Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem 04-09-24 03.33, skrev Harald Houppermans följande: >> Though looking

Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem

2004-09-26 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 24 sep 2004, at 18:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: testData = record testIndex : packed array [0..12] of integer; end; Wouldn't that solve any alignment problems ? Or doesn't free pascal have a 'packed' directive ? It does, but it only works for individual records. It's ignored for arrays. Jo

Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem

2004-09-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message - From: "Olle Raab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem 04-09-24 09.44, skrev Stephen Downs följande: > > Thanks for everyones input (Haro

Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem

2004-09-24 Thread Olle Raab
04-09-24 09.44, skrev Stephen Downs följande: > > Thanks for everyones input (Harold - it a Mac thing !!). I'm away for a couple > of days now so won't be able to follow up until next week but I guess I need > to read up on alignment of binary data. > > I assume from what you are saying is that

RE: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem

2004-09-24 Thread Stephen Downs
> -Original Message- > From: Olle Raab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 September 2004 21:45 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem > > 04-09-23 23.09, skrev Stephen Downs följande: > > > -Original Message--

Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem

2004-09-24 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 24 sep 2004, at 03:33, Harald Houppermans wrote: But my first posting was correct... it's a pointer to a pointer to data. Are you sure you want that ? Probably, yes. A pointer to a pointer to data is called a handle under classic Mac OS, and was used a lot there (so the OS could defragment t

Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem

2004-09-23 Thread Olle Raab
04-09-24 03.33, skrev Harald Houppermans följande: >> Though looking at the code again... why is testDataPointer declared (it >> doesn't seem to be used) ? >> >> In other words... >> >> 1. Does the routine expect a pointer to data ? >> 2. Does the routine expect a pointer to a pointer to data ?

Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem

2004-09-23 Thread Harald Houppermans
- Original Message - From: "Harald Houppermans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 3:19 AM Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem > > - Original Message - > From: "Harald Houpperman

Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem

2004-09-23 Thread Harald Houppermans
- Original Message - From: "Harald Houppermans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 3:06 AM Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Stephe

Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem

2004-09-23 Thread Harald Houppermans
- Original Message - From: "Stephen Downs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:49 PM Subject: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem I am porting a Mac CodeWarrior project to FreePascal and have hit a compile problem with a pointer. In my or

Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem

2004-09-23 Thread Olle Raab
04-09-23 23.09, skrev Stephen Downs följande: > -Original Message- > From:Marcel Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent:Thu 9/23/2004 9:18 PM > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: > Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem > > Stephen Dow

RE: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem

2004-09-23 Thread Stephen Downs
-Original Message- From: Marcel Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 9/23/2004 9:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject:Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem Stephen Downs a écrit : > > I am porting a Mac CodeWarrior project to FreePascal and have

Re: [fpc-pascal]Apple Mac pointer problem

2004-09-23 Thread Marcel Martin
Stephen Downs a écrit : > > I am porting a Mac CodeWarrior project to FreePascal and have hit a > compile problem with a pointer. In my original code I have a structure > defined along the lines of > > testData = record >testIndex : array [0..12] of integer; > end; > > testDataPointer = ^te