[fpc-pascal] Feature announcement: Unicode character constants outside of BMP

2018-05-27 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
Hello together! Small feature announcement this time, but some might like it nevertheless: FPC now supports unicode character constants that are outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), thus all with a value > $, but < $10 (the highest possible Unicode code point). As these are e

Re: [fpc-pascal] Feature announcement: Unicode character constants outside of BMP

2018-05-27 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal said: > ? s: UnicodeString; > begin > ? s := #$10437; > ? DumpStr(s); > ? s := #$24b62; > ? DumpStr(s); > end. Nice. Means you can directly enter constant into the source without doing manual conversions first. ___

[fpc-pascal] Free e-book: Free Pascal from Square One

2018-05-27 Thread Jonas Maebe
Hi, See http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=4034 It's by Jeff Duntemann, and based on his 1993 book "Borland Pascal 7 from Square One". Jonas ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free e-book: Free Pascal from Square One

2018-05-27 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op 27-05-18 om 18:18 schreef Jonas Maebe: See http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=4034 It's by Jeff Duntemann, and based on his 1993 book "Borland Pascal 7 from Square One". His original book was fabulous. I've learned everything from him. Discussed with him a new version of this book year

[fpc-pascal] -gw and -O3

2018-05-27 Thread Ryan Joseph
What happens when you have both those switches on at the same time? Does the -gw affect the performance or just output information in addition to the optimized compilation? Regards, Ryan Joseph ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.fre