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fpc-devel · 2008-05

  1. FreePascal on ARM Linux ,SoftFloat and EABI issues

    Hi Florian and other friends I am involved in porting existing C code to Arm Linux for AT91SAM9263 Ek board with 340x220 display. I need to write lots of console kinda…

    Nataraj S Narayan, Jonas Maebe, Luca Olivetti
    8
  2. StrToDateTime issue

    Performing some tests with date and time routines I discovered that StrToDateTime doesn't work if I only use time. This was designed that way or a patch is welcome? Joao…

    Joao Morais, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  3. I get duplicate GUIDs under Linux

    I'm trying to do performance testing in Firebird RDBMS using GUID's and primary keys. I constantly got PK violations. I then wrote the code show below to create 50,000…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Daniël Mantione, Florian Klaempfl
    44
  4. please make TField.SetDataset virtual

    Hello, FPC developers' list. For delphi compatibility TField.SetDataset should be virtual and placed in the protected section. Please apply attached patch to correct…

    Paul Ishenin, Joost van der Sluis, Michael Van Canneyt
    8
  5. A little patch to improve the haiku target

    This patch add : - a little more native rtl: it use a native haiku library for select function instead of relying on a compatibility symlink - haiku in the list of…

    Olivier Coursière, Florian Klaempfl
    1
  6. FPCMacOSAll

    The FPCMacOSAll unit has been renamed to MacOSAll (both for 2.3.1 and 2.2.1). The reason is that the same has been done in the Common Pascal Interfaces repository from…

    Jonas Maebe
    0
  7. fpcdoc slovak translation

    In the attachement, there is slovak translation "dglobals.sk.po" for FPDOC tool. In order to use it on windows, I need to do also following changes (agains FPC 2.2.0):…

    Dusan Halicky, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  8. Dynamic Linking (-XD)

    This is a very nice feature - dynamic linking of "ppumove'd" units with the "-XD" option. But it isn't possible use this with smartlinking for other units... May be best…

    Ivan Shikhalev
    0
  9. Too big documentation images

    The following images: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu5.html#x25-240003.1.1 Are too big, in the sense that there are huge white spaces in the height. Are…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Florian Klaempfl, Graeme Geldenhuys
    13
  10. Issue with TBits.OpenBit

    The current TBits.OpenBit function differs from Delphi. In Delphi, it is a read-only operation: if all allocated bits are set, it returns value equal to Size. In FPC, it…

    Sergei Gorelkin, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys
    6
  11. ExtractFileDrive is broken under Linux

    I reported this bug since FPC 2.0.2 as Mantis Bug #6491 http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=6491 The bug report contains a test application. Using FPC 2.0.2, 2 out of…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Marc Weustink, Marco van de Voort
    9
  12. (patch) improvement of object creation speed

    While valgrinding my projects, I noticed that InitInterfacePointers procedure eats noticeable amount of CPU cycles. For TObject.NewInstance call tree, I got Irefs for…

    Sergei Gorelkin, Florian Klaempfl
    1
  13. CP_UTF8 on wince

    Why is CP_UTF8 not defined in the windows unit of the wince RTL? It was requested here: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=10822 But it seems to be support in…

    Vincent Snijders
    0
  14. The status of fpmake ?

    What's the status of 'fpmake'. Can it already be used for our custom written software? As a command line build system, instead of Makefile's? I'm using FPC 2.2.1 at the…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Peter Vreman
    6
  15. fpc2.3.1 with uclibc 0.9.29 can work now.It seems fpc can't load uclibc share library correctly.

    开心, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Florian Klaempfl
    4
  16. NetBSD / PPC (Xillinx 405)

    I want to do some programming for a embedded system: (Port our SIP/RTP Stack to some embedded system) System is: ---- NetBSD 3.0 #1570: Tue Aug 15 15:08:31 CEST 2006 TG…

    Helmut Hartl, ik
    2
  17. Big patch to setup an haiku target in fpc

    Since Haiku has now its own gcc target, i think it is time to add an haiku target to fpc. At least, fpc need to set the right target in the linker script to compile…

    Olivier Coursière, Florian Klaempfl
    2
  18. OS/2 build failure

    For a while now I've been getting the following error when building from svn (2.3.1 from 20 mins ago). The last known good build I have is from 3rd. Jan but I think it…

    Dave Parsons, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Marco van de Voort
    7
  19. High performance Linux timer

    Does anybody know if there is a Linux (or generic Unix) high performance timer API available. Something like the Win32 API QueryPerformanceCounter()? - Graeme -…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Johann Glaser
    5
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  21. fpc program now can work under uclibc based linux system, but using cthreads fails.

    开心, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    4
  22. move(xx, ansistring[1] versus ansistring, len)

    I am trying to find some info on how I can use move to archive the following: I am looking for an equal replacement of move(somepchar^, ansi_str_dest[1], len) The…

    Martin Friebe, Jonas Maebe, JoshyFun
    5
  23. TRegistry, TRegIniFile

    Hello, FPC developers' list. Why TRegistry = class(TObject) ... public constructor Create; overload; constructor Create(aaccess:longword); // <<-- no overload ...…

    Paul Ishenin, Florian Klaempfl, Jeff Wormsley
    9
  24. How to use uClibc in my fpc programs?

    开心, Florian Klaempfl
    1
  25. Compiler limitations

    according the documentation "Arrays are limited to 2 GBytes in size in the default processor mode." Is there another mode allowing bigger arrays? miklos

    Miklos Cserzo, Daniël Mantione, Florian Klaempfl
    9
  26. is strnew delphi-compatible?

    TurboPascal and Delphi differ in the way they do strnew. Delphi allocates additional two bytes preceding the first character to store the length of the string. The turbo…

    Klaus Hartnegg, Marco van de Voort, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  27. FpFlock with Text as argument

    I don't know if it is a bug or I am using fpflock incorrectly. I wanted to use fpflock to lock a file (and be sure that only one process at a time can have access to my…

    amir, Luca Olivetti, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  28. Address of procedures in linked libs

    In a dynamically linked in library (not dlload) if I do @SomeProcInSharedObject is it giving me the address of the code in memory or something else? For instance I tried…

    Andrew Haines, Jonas Maebe
    1
  29. Extended in Win64

    Hi. Why on Win64 on AMD64 is Extended type 64bit same as double and on Win32, Linux32 and Linux64 is 80bit. It breaks for example this construction: procedure Swap(var…

    Unknown author, Daniël Mantione, Jonas Maebe
    3
  30. sysstr patch once more

    Hi. sysstr.inc r10846 does not include my patch, which solves problem when both strings are empty and differs after null character. Then I'am sending it again merged…

    Unknown author, Jonas Maebe
    1
  31. How to use fpFlock?

    I have many process wanting to write in a file. Each process is going to open the file as a writeonly (using Assignfile and rewrite or fpOpen with o_WrOnly). But there…

    amir, ik
    4
  32. SDL on Mac OS X 10.5 and fpc 2.3.1

    SDL is used in the program Ultrastar. on macosx 10.5 and fpc 2.3.1 sdl_init leads to a large number of warnings. This is the line with sdl_init: SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO…

    Schindler Karl-Michael, Adriaan van Os, Jonas Maebe
    2
  33. Re: VarArray 64bit clean patch

    My previous version of patch breaks windows VarArray implementation using oleaut32.dll. In attachment is new commented patch. Patch leaves varInt64 and varQWord disabled…

    Unknown author
    0
  34. 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