Re: [fpc-pascal] Unicodestrings and Assign(File)

2012-05-20 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Sven Barth schrieb: >> Although, as said: Only very few functions realy act on the file name. >> Most use the file handle only (which will not change). > Regarding the filename, yes, but while we're at it we could also change functions like WriteFile to WriteFileW (etc.)... There is no WriteFil

Re: [fpc-pascal] Unicodestrings and Assign(File)

2012-05-20 Thread Sven Barth
On 20.05.2012 10:58, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Sven Barth schrieb: >> Although, as said: Only very few functions realy act on the file name. >> Most use the file handle only (which will not change). > Regarding the filename, yes, but while we're at it we could also change functions like WriteFi

Re: [fpc-pascal] Darwin i386

2012-05-20 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 20 May 2012, at 02:59, Andrew Brunner wrote: > I'm having a hard time with GDB and debugging threads on a OSX 10.7.4 with > fpc/trunk > > The shipped gdb worked great with the exception of threads calling methods > via synchronize (so I can debug). What are you doing exactly, what happens, a

Re: [fpc-pascal] Unicodestrings and Assign(File)

2012-05-20 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
In "fpc\rtl\inc\file.inc" (and fpc\fpc\rtl\inc\text.inc) the declaration of "Assign" uses the generic "String" type for the file name. I think this can be AnsiString too, so it may be longer than 255 characters. But the assignment to the internal *rec element "name" (which is "array[0..255] of ch

Re: [fpc-pascal] Unicodestrings and Assign(File)

2012-05-20 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Sun, May 20, 2012 14:40, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > In "fpc\rtl\inc\file.inc" (and fpc\fpc\rtl\inc\text.inc) the declaration > of "Assign" > uses the generic "String" type for the file name. I think this can be > AnsiString too, so it may be longer than 255 characters. > But the assignment to th

Re: [fpc-pascal] Darwin i386

2012-05-20 Thread Andrew Brunner
> > > What are you doing exactly, what happens, and what is the expected result > instead? > I'm upgrading my gdb from shipping version with darwin to gdb version from download. I downloaded and ran /configure make make install 7.1. It doesn't work with fpc. I'm going to have to switch back. T

Re: [fpc-pascal] Darwin i386

2012-05-20 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 20 May 2012, at 15:25, Andrew Brunner wrote: >> What are you doing exactly, what happens, and what is the expected result >> instead? > > I'm upgrading my gdb from shipping version with darwin to gdb version from The above was a question relating to "... with the exception of threads calling

Re: [fpc-pascal] Darwin i386

2012-05-20 Thread Andrew Brunner
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Jonas Maebe The above was a question relating to "... with the exception of threads calling methods via synchronize (so I can debug)." I.e., what are the exact things you are doing, what is happening, and what are the expected results regarding trying to debug thre

Re: [fpc-pascal] Unicodestrings and Assign(File)

2012-05-20 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Tomas Hajny schrieb: On Sun, May 20, 2012 14:40, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Move(s[1],TextRec(t).Name,Length(s)); That would be a bug IMO when S is longer than 255 characters. "Move" does no range check. No, unit System (which uses these include files) is never compiled with $H+. Ok. I

Re: [fpc-pascal] Unicodestrings and Assign(File)

2012-05-20 Thread Sven Barth
Am 21.05.2012 07:17 schrieb "Jürgen Hestermann" : > > > > Tomas Hajny schrieb: >> >> On Sun, May 20, 2012 14:40, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: >> >>> >>> Move(s[1],TextRec(t).Name,Length(s)); >>> That would be a bug IMO when S is longer than 255 characters. >>> "Move" does no range check. >>> >> >> No,