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fpc-devel · 2008-04

  1. Cairo header update

    I looked into Luiz' updated headers for Cairo (http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=11175), and while they are ok in principle (improvements, beautification), the…

    Marco van de Voort, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
    2
  2. Fix for SwapEndian

    I've a problem with BeToN with smallints on a x86 system. When you use BeToN on smallint's with values like $8000 and $8200 it will return values like $FF80 and $FF82,…

    Joost van der Sluis, Jonas Maebe, Marc Weustink
    7
  3. Unix internationalization patch

    Hi. Today i wrote code for filling formating variables in unix. I tested it only on Linux. I'm not sure with integration into unix/sysutils.pp and using libc. Patch is…

    Unknown author, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    11
  4. VarArray 64bit clean patch

    Hi. Today I worked on VarArrays. Here is 64-bit friendly VariantArray patch. Testing program is attached too. Implementation was tested on i386 and AMD64 linux with…

    Unknown author, Florian Klaempfl
    2
  5. RealThinClient SDK for Linux (Lazarus/FreePascal) - under development

    Development of the RealThinClient SDK for Linux (Lazarus/FreePascal) has started. If you would like to make sure that you get access to the new components when they are…

    Danijel Tkalcec
    0
  6. TCustomApplication's parent class?

    Why does TCustomApplication derive from TComponent instead of TObject? What is the reason behind this? Is there any benefits unknown to me? Surely we never need to…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner, Michael Van Canneyt
    9
  7. readme.txt of test suite

    I tried the test suite and found that the readme should be improved. This is what I did: 1) Put the usage paragraph to the top. 2) Add the now required make option…

    Schindler Karl-Michael, Florian Klaempfl, Sergei Gorelkin
    2
  8. Looking for a Linux Guru

    A new bid request for a FreePascal/Linux expert is open on RentACoder: http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/BidRequests/ShowBidRequest.asp?lng BidRequestId=913847…

    Danijel Tkalcec
    0
  9. Delphi and C++Builder Roadmap update

    The article here : http://dn.codegear.com/article/36620 The points I think that can interest FPC people are : 1 - Generics, including language and RTL support 2 -…

    Inoussa OUEDRAOGO
    0
  10. Exception handler under Go32V2 and NT-system

    I have read of some crashes with gdb under go32v2. So looking throught dpmiexcp.pp file I found in the djgpp_exception_toggle procedure a potential problem. The line if…

    Unknown author, Tomas Hajny
    3
  11. New Language Features in Oxygene 3.0

    Did you read this ? http://www.remobjects.com/product/page.asp?id={E10F7F5C-AE94-4833-9E4B-2EDD5ED69768} ? RemObjects introduces several really interesting language…

    Michael Schnell, Daniël Mantione, Marco van de Voort
    5
  12. Please fix the ARMv5 runtime detection in fpc 2.2.1

    The ARMv5 runtime detection is fixed in fpc 2.3.1. Could you please apply this fix to fpc 2.2.1 too? The procedure fpc_cpucodeinit in rtl/arm/arm.inc is affected.…

    Bernd Mueller, Yury Sidorov
    2
  13. TStrings.Assign bug + patch

    Hello, FPC developers' list. I found a bug in TStrings.Assign. TStrings has FLBS (line break style) field which assigned from default value in CheckSpecialChars.…

    Paul Ishenin, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  14. make fcl-db fails for arm-wince for the fpc 2.2.1 branch

    I am trying to the packages for arm-wince on the fixes_2_2 branch and get the error below. Anybody else got this problem?…

    Vincent Snijders, Yury Sidorov
    3
  15. MSEide+MSEgui binary package

    We try to build a package for MSEide+MSEgui with precompiled units. While compiling a simple testproject with the precompiled units we get: " Free Pascal Compiler…

    Martin Schreiber, Jonas Maebe, Marco van de Voort
    25
  16. 2.2.x fixes (next release?)

    As far as I understand the next release of FPC will be v2.2.2. I would like to test my code with what is currently available. I believe that is 2.2.1? Where is this…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Vincent Snijders
    1
  17. RealThinClient SDK for FreePascal/Linux

    What is the RealThinClient SDK? http://rtcsdk.com/about_sdk.htm Where can you download RTC SDK for Delphi/Win32? http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtcsdk Want the…

    Danijel Tkalcec
    0
  18. symify.pp broken

    Hi! As ugdbdos.zip\examples\gdbint\symify.pp is still broken and doesn't fully suite my needs, I'd like to rewrite some parts with focus on DOS, but I want to be sure,…

    Robert Riebisch, Jonas Maebe, Peter Vreman
    30
  19. asm to Object Pascal

    I'm porting a reporting engine from Delphi to Free Pascal. I want to get it as cross-platform as possible even though my deployment environment is only x86 systems.…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe, Joost van der Sluis
    3
  20. Request to apply patch of bug 0010959

    In response to bug report 0010959, i've uploaded a patch to fix the issue, but the reporter closed the bug before the patch was applied. So, i'd like to someone to apply…

    Luiz Americo Pereira Camara, Tomas Hajny, Vincent Snijders
    4
  21. Fixes branch contains cleanroom code

    The fixes branch now contains all cleanroom code from trunk, which is now hopefully relatively bugfree. Please test any applications that you are developing using the…

    Michael Van Canneyt
    0
  22. Rebuilding fpc-2.3.1.go32v2.zip

    Hi! How do I build /snapshot/v23/i386-go32v2/fpc-2.3.1.go32v2.zip from fpcbuild.zip? (Host: Windows) Robert Riebisch BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/

    Robert Riebisch, Jonas Maebe, Joost van der Sluis
    16
  23. FPCUnit: change proposal

    We use FPCUnit and DUnit2 (branch of DUnit v1) extensively in the tiOPF [http://www.tiopf.com] project. DUnit2 has some impressive enhancements added and improved design.

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    3
  24. Fixes of FPC version 2.2.0

    I just wanted to ask if the current version 2.2.1 already includes all the fixes done since the release of 2.2.0. The reason I am asking this is because I downloaded a…

    Yiannis Dondos, Giulio Bernardi, Jonas Maebe
    11
  25. childpos streaming fixed

    I hope to have fixed what seems to be the last open bug in the streaming system. Unless there are additional reports, the whole cleanroom implementation will be merged…

    Michael Van Canneyt, C Western, Jonas Maebe
    4
  26. Valgrind strscan

    Hi. In the morning I was hunting valgrind "Invalid read of size 4" in my code and finally I found it. Example: program str; uses SysUtils; var p: PChar; begin GetMem(p,…

    Unknown author, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    6
  27. Two small patchs to fix errors when building under BeOS/Haiku

    Here is a couple of patch to fix the build : - one fix a problem in rtl/beos/tthread.inc (rtl_beos_tthread.inc_30_03_2008.diff) - one fix a problem in the packages build…

    Olivier Coursière, Jonas Maebe
    3
  28. Status of cleanroom

    What is the status of the cleanroom? Are there many more know bugs? Is it already merged somewhere (either trunk or fpc_fixes)? Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Michael Van Canneyt, Paul Ishenin
    3
  29. TimeReFormat in FormatDateTime

    I do no know exact reason use TimeReFormat (replacing 'm'->'n' in time formating). But we cannot use this, because this breaks 'am/pm' and 'ampm' formating request. And…

    Unknown author, Michael Van Canneyt, Sergei Gorelkin
    9
  30. TDataSet.FieldDefs patch

    Hi. We need to copy FieldDefs if programmer assigns to this property. For example RxMemoryDataset expect this behaviour. Petr Ing. Petr Kristan . EPOS PRO s.r.o., Bozeny…

    Unknown author, Joost van der Sluis
    1
  31. Problems with trunk/cleanroom

    We spent some days with debugging MSEide+MSEgui with FPC trunk. Sometimes there are AV's while calling an interface procedure. Example:…

    Martin Schreiber, Michael Van Canneyt
    3
  32. Packed array of boolean

    We're in the process of migrating an *OLD* (25+ years) application from Oregon Pascal / SCO Unix to Free Pascal (2.2.0) / SuSE Linux Enterprise. This involves at least…

    Walker, David, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    3
  33. utf8string

    Hello, FPC developers' list Seems time has come to start think of support for utf8string type in free pascal. We need it fot unicode in LCL. I searched compiler code to…

    Paul Ishenin
    0
  34. sysstr patch

    Hi. Sysstr comparing routines does not work correct if two strings were empty. Example: program comp; uses SysUtils; var a, b: array[0..1] of char; begin a[0] := #0;…

    Unknown author, Micha Nelissen
    2
  35. Debugging FPC

    Hello. When i try to run on the steps pp.pas, i get the following error 1) under Linux - "Project pp raised exception class 'Unknown'" 2) under Windows - "Project raised…

    Никита Баль, Jonas Maebe, Martin Schreiber
    12
  36. Valgrind Val

    This program runed in valgrind brings on error: program val; var n, e: Integer; begin System.Val('', n, e); end. ==18377== Conditional jump or move depends on…

    Unknown author, Florian Klaempfl
    1
  37. gdb crashes with trunk

    I am currently debugging the "cleanroom code" which is a frustrating matter because gdb crashes at allmost every breakpoint. Any hints how to let gdb work more stable…

    Martin Schreiber, Jonas Maebe, Marco van de Voort
    25
  38. Re: Important: Call for testing.

    Looks good, thanks. There is a problem with inline components: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=11069 Please delete 11068, it was posted private by accident. Martin

    Martin Schreiber, C Western, Giulio Bernardi
    52
  39. How to convert Double to Comp without warning

    Compiling this code: var t: TDateTime; m: Comp; begin t := 1000.999; m := t; end. Throws: Warning: Automatic type conversion from floating type to COMP which is an…

    Unknown author, Marco van de Voort, Vincent Snijders
    3
  40. Invalid compiler warning

    Hi. Compiling this code throws in my opinion invalid warning. program res; {$mode objfpc} uses Classes, SysUtils; function r: string; begin raise…

    Unknown author, Jonas Maebe
    1
  41. TDataset.ClearCalcFields

    Hi. Valgrind uncover me error in TDataset.ClearCalcFields. I think that this code is entirely bad. Procedure TDataset.ClearCalcFields(Buffer: PChar); begin if…

    Unknown author
    0