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fpc-devel · 2005-03

  1. FPC and valgrind

    I tried out valgrind on lazaraus and one of my own lcl programs, and was able to get it working by after applying some small patches to valgrind (which I have sent to…

    C Western, Colin Western, Florian Klaempfl
    5
  2. webserver

    i cannot access http://www.freepascal.org/ for days. I can ping it, and wget establishes a connection ("200 OK" )but cant download any data. ftp and…

    Daniel Herzog, Alexey Barkovoy, Dr. Karl-Michael Schindler
    46
  3. Patch for bug 2453

    This is my first shot, so be gentle :-) The patch assumes FP wants sufficient compatibility with BP 7. If so, it fixes two problems; if not, at least it was a fun…

    Sterling Bates, Tomas Hajny
    4
  4. Patch for bug 3774

    This patch adds recognition for hex to Val(). Sterling --------------------------------- Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals

    Sterling Bates, Florian Klaempfl, Thomas Schatzl
    5
  5. Quick patch for bug 3762

    Turns out the CRT unit in OS/2 -- which, by my searches, uses #13#10 as CRLF -- was recognizing #13 alone as CRLF. #10 was completed ignored. Sterling…

    Sterling Bates, DrDiettrich, Jonas Maebe
    9
  6. Create installer for MacOSX

    I want to create a lazarus installer package for darwin (MacOSX). What tool should I use to create such a package? What tool does fpc use for packaging the compiler for…

    Vincent Snijders, Adriaan van Os, Dr. Karl-Michael Schindler
    16
  7. Bug 3543

    Hello. Bug 3543 has been closed as unreproducable, but I can not compile this program at least with fpc 1.9.8 on Win32: Uses Keyboard; begin repeat until KeyPressed; end.

    Maxim Ganetsky, Michael Van Canneyt, Thomas Schatzl
    4
  8. Packaging

    Hi guys. It would be nice if you could add a starting compiler to your source packages, this eases up packaging with gentoo alot. this is especially important for the…

    Daniel Herzog, Dr. Karl-Michael Schindler, Johannes Berg
    28
  9. Win a PowerMac G5 by porting FPC to Linux/PPC64

    The Free Pascal Compiler team is proud to announce that the Free Pascal Compiler has been selected to participate in IBM's Linux On Power contest. The goal is to create…

    Jonas Maebe
    0
  10. "Friend" classes?

    I just came about code that uses protected members of other classes, defined in other units. In Delphi this possible by a declaration like: type TFriendClass =…

    DrDiettrich, Ales Katona, Florian Klaempfl
    22
  11. First benchmark of Abbrevia 4.0

    A friend of mine just has tested my archiver, with the following results for an TAR with a million of files: PowerArchiver: 530 minutes. My Unarch: 160 minutes. I hope…

    DrDiettrich, Michael Van Canneyt, Tony Maro
    3
  12. bug #3064

    One question to the fpc team: What is the difficulty with bugs #3064 "{$A+/-} problem" #3497 "$OPTIMIZATION unknown" #3687 "Locality of $J /$writeableconst" ???

    Unknown author, Florian Klaempfl, Peter Vreman
    2
  13. xf86vmode unit

    xf86vmode unit attached

    Nikolay Nikolov, Florian Klaempfl, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  14. RTL / SysUtils / GetLocaleStr, GetLocaleChar

    is there any reason, why GetLocaleStr and GetLocaleChar (unit SysUtils under Win32) are not published? wkr Peter.

    Peter J. Haas
    0
  15. fpc_ShortStr_To_WideStr

    Is the assignment to Size meant to be commented out? (I have just started having trouble with a program which I think has just started using widestrings because the DOM…

    C Western, Alexey Barkovoy, Florian Klaempfl
    8
  16. TStrings.CheckSpecialChars broken

    The TStrings.CheckSpecialChars is missing a not. Now the special chars are never initialized :( Marc Index: stringl.inc…

    Marc Weustink, Ales Katona, Florian Klaempfl
    9
  17. Can't build 1.9.8

    As 1.9.6 has finally entered Debian, I'm now working on packages for 1.9.8. However, by the time I try to compile the RTL, I get makefile errors which I didn't with…

    Carlos Laviola, Peter Vreman
    2
  18. errorct.msg

    Hi, I send the catalan translation of errore.msg (v 1.119). Sorry if this is not the right way to send something to the developers. If not, please tell me. (Please, if…

    jordi, Florian Klaempfl
    3
  19. ansistring <--> widestring conversion

    i post here a heavilly modified version of the widestring code (and a couple of files from the xml code that depend on it) i have made the ansi <--> wide conversion…

    peter green
    1
  20. Changing transaction properties specific to IB when using IBConnection

    Hi I played with Sqldb and IBConnection units, and now I see the real benefit of them: there's only one dataset and one transaction class for all Firebird, PostgreSQL…

    Michalis Kamburelis, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  21. Fix to IBConnection field names

    Hi (This is completely unrelated to my previous patches to sqldb and ibconnection.) A simple correction that fixes a problem in IBConnection with field names: in…

    Michalis Kamburelis
    0
  22. Remember bug 3221

    Please remember bug 3221 (memory leak by dynamic string as out parameter), the problem still exists on fpc 1.9.9. Martin

    Martin Schreiber
    0
  23. netdb, sockets, endianess

    Since I'm working on networking support again, I cleaned up the FCL socket units (ssockets, fpsock, netdb, resolve) a bit. Mostly I did some order (endinaness) fixes,…

    Marco van de Voort
    0
  24. Local procedures as procedural parameter

    1. On the todo list for fpc's MacPas mode is a feature that allows local procedures (functions) to be passed a procedural parameters. I tentatively put it on my own todo…

    Adriaan van Os, DrDiettrich, Florian Klaempfl
    45
  25. TField.IsNull for Interbase (or rather Firebird :) implemented

    Hi I managed to implement correct TField.IsNull behaviour for fields inside TIBQuery dataset. I'm attaching: -- patch to packages/base/ibase/ibase60types.inc, this fixes…

    Michalis Kamburelis, Joost van der Sluis, Michael Van Canneyt
    3
  26. xf86dga unit

    xf86dga unit attached you may add it to packages/extra/x11

    Nikolay Nikolov, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  27. Video unit -- bug? Tracedump -- request?

    I know, I posted about it already on fpc-pascal, but I got no reply, and I'm realy stuck with the linux version of my game because of it... At least please tell me where…

    Kornel Kisielewicz, Dr. Karl-Michael Schindler, Jonas Maebe
    10
  28. Interbase.TIBTransaction should publish some private things

    Hi Looking at Interbase unit (fcl/db/interbase/interbase.pp), I see that TIBTransaction was probably meant to publish properties AccessMode, IsolationLevel,…

    Michalis Kamburelis
    0
  29. Daily Lazarus Snaps

    Great!!! All in one! http://www.ca.freepascal.org/Lazarus/

    Unknown author
    0
  30. ctypes for the xutil unit

    I'm not sending the .diff, because it was larger than the actual new file :)

    Nikolay Nikolov, Florian Klaempfl
    2
  31. utf8 reading

    Can I offer the attached patch for reading utf8 strings from resource files? It simply converts the utf string to a normal string by discarding the high bits, but I had…

    C Western, DrDiettrich, Florian Klaempfl
    16
  32. xshm.pp using ctypes

    xshm.pp using ctypes attached

    Nikolay Nikolov, Florian Klaempfl
    1
  33. A bug for fpc 1.9.8?

    Hello, everyone I am using fpc 1.9.8. I find that the function of FPSigaction in BaseUnix unit dosen't work. I use the example in the document for FPSigaction, but it…

    Zhong Wang, Florian Klaempfl, Marc Weustink
    13
  34. ptop

    is anybody interested in changed ptop? My version now has capability of a dictionary. Capitalization can be specified as wild as desired, words can even be changed…

    Jan Ruzicka, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  35. Patch for bug 3595 and 3758

    Here is the anounced patch. Martin

    Martin Schreiber, Peter Vreman
    1
  36. Patch for linux syscalls

    One of the syscall routines in rtl/linux/i386/syscall.inc checks for a return value in the range -4095..-1 as the error return, but all the rest just take a negative…

    C Western, Florian Klaempfl
    1
  37. Improving Ref Counting

    Rather than continuing the GC stuff which seems fruitless I thought it might be better to improve what we have with ref counting (whilst taking a leaf out of the GC book…

    Jamie McCracken, DrDiettrich, Florian Klaempfl
    40
  38. Re: What happened to fexpand()

    Hello, Marco - thanks for your reply... It is well-documented in the FPC 1.0.7 manual, ( along with example code ) and no mention is made about not using it. You lost me…

    Jeff Pohlmeyer, Marco van de Voort
    1
  39. What happened to fexpand() ?

    Is there some reason why fexpand() was removed from unix.pp ? Is it gone forever? Or maybe it is moved to another unit? - Jeff __________________________________…

    Jeff Pohlmeyer, Marco van de Voort
    1
  40. Performace question about dynamic arrays.

    Some on the fpc-pascal list suggested that I should ask the devel guys, so here goes: Attached there's a little program that I wrote to test the performace of several…

    Agustin Barto
    0
  41. Re: Changes to gtk 2 bindings

    On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:55:54 +0100 Both. You can send me the patches/extra files. Mattias

    Mattias Gaertner, Marco van de Voort, Michalis Kamburelis
    3