memsom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Reading PChars at negative indexes? Buffer underrun in other
> words... This
> is absolutely not a good thing. If FPC is preventing buffer under
> and
> overrruns, then it is actually right, for once, and Delphi is
> wrong,
> wrong, wrong!
Yeah, it seems dumb.
Has anyone come up with a set of routines for converting between Turbo
Pascal's 6-byte "real" format and FPC's real number format?
I am trying to use FPC to update a legacy TP 5.5 program. I've got most of
the "major" issues solved and am now finding that I'm having trouble
reading legacy dat
Lowell C. Savage wrote:
> Has anyone come up with a set of routines for converting between Turbo
> Pascal's 6-byte "real" format and FPC's real number format?
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/real2double.html
>
> I am trying to use FPC to update a legacy TP 5.5 program. I've got
On 19 Sep 2005, at 17:40, Alan Mead wrote:
I think it's
impossible that he could get a wrong result because even if the
garbage at memory p[-3] to p[-1] matches the word ending, the word
itself will not.
There's not necessarily garbage at those locations, those addresses
may simply not b
Well, I found a "Real2Double" function in the System unit that converts
from an old TP 6-byte "real" to an 8-byte double. (Guess I should have
looked a little harder, there.) But I'm not seeing anything going the
other way. Anyone?
Thanks,
Lowell
At 12:56 PM 9-19-05, Lowell C. Savage wrote
