FPCAdds unit

Contains additional types and routines not currently available in FPC.

fpcadds.pas contains code in its initialization section to set the code page for conversions and the RTL file system to CP_UTF8. The initialization code is included only for platforms or OS-es where the RTL ( Run-Time Library) is UTF-8-enabled.

fpcadds.pas is part of the lazutils package.

Procedures and functions

`AlignToInt`	function	Aligns the specified pointer to the size of an Integer data type.
`AlignToPtr`	function	Aligns the specified pointer to the boundaries required for the FPC compiler.
`GetCompiledTargetCPU`	function
`GetCompiledTargetOS`	function
`StrToByte`	function
`StrToByteDef`	function
`StrToShortInt`	function
`StrToShortIntDef`	function
`StrToSmallInt`	function
`StrToSmallIntDef`	function
`StrToWord`	function	Converts the value in a String to a Word data type.
`StrToWordDef`	function
`TryStrToByte`	function
`TryStrToShortInt`	function
`TryStrToSmallInt`	function
`TryStrToWord`	function

Types

`TCompareMemSize`	type	Alias to the PtrUInt type used when comparing memory blocks.
`TMemStreamSeekType`	type	Alias to the PtrInt type used as the origin for TMemoryStream seek operations.
`TStreamSeekType`	type	Alias to the Int64 type used as the origin for TStream seek operations.

Uses

An experiment, built from development snapshots. Not the official Free Pascal or Lazarus documentation.