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fpc-devel · 2008-07

  1. Russian locale information not compatible with FPC locale variables

    A Russian user raised the issue in the fpGUI newsgroups... fpGUI uses UTF-8 as the internal string encoding. He noticed that the File Dialog which displays the file…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Ales Katona, Bee
    227
  2. Present and Future of Free Pascal Compiler .

    A discussion started on representation of Russian language in FPC ( Free Pascal Compiler ) and continues toward about the general design and future of FPC . As a …

    Mehmet Erol Sanliturk, Boian Mitov, Florian Klaempfl
    3
  3. Present and Future of Free Pascal Compiler (1).

    (A) My ideas about dear Boian Mitov's views are the following: I do NOT think that my view is a narrow vision . If you wonder how I am working I tell it : Over my…

    Mehmet Erol Sanliturk, Boian Mitov
    1
  4. GetAppConfigDir confusion

    It seems that currently, GetAppConfigDir performs rather incosistently. On Unix, it returns path with trailing pathdelim, on windows it returns path with random trailing…

    Ales Katona, Inoussa OUEDRAOGO, Marc Weustink
    6
  5. What's the point of the constant: sLineBreak

    What's the point of the sLineBreak constant? We already have the LineEnding constant. - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  6. fpc armel OABI_COMPAT

    Hi I am using fpc 2.3.1 svn on armel linux. The crosscompiled programs execute only when the arm-linux kernel has been compiled with OABI_COMPAT=y along with EABI=y. If…

    Nataraj S Narayan, Luca Olivetti
    2
  7. var i: 2..5; {behaves strangely with case}

    Attached is a program that illustrates misbehaviour: second assert fails as n gets 4. Commented are actions to make it work properly. It has something to do with first…

    Pavel Sutyrin
    0
  8. Utf8ToUnicode

    I had a problem with strings that are silently converted to '' (nothing) and finally found that this strings pass throught the UTF8Decode function (I'm using Lazarus)…

    JoshyFun
    0
  9. Online documentation bug...

    In the following page, have a look at the "See also" section. The second link isn't a link. http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/baseunix/fpfork.html - Graeme -…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  10. Using extensions of text file names in Lazarus 0.9.25 with/and fpc 2.2.2rc .

    I am using lazarus 0.9.25 with/and fpc 2.2.2rc2 and in general other newer fixes or development releases . I did not intend ( Makefile ) because it is a fixed name for…

    Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
    0
  11. Itanium porting

    is FreePascal able to compile for Itanium CPUs? If not, there is a road-map to do this? Best regards... Fabio Dell'Aria.

    Fabio Dell'Aria, Florian Klaempfl
    1
  12. Using extensions for text file names .

    In \fpc\ and \lazarus\ directories , some text file names do not have an extension such as *.TXT . This situation is causing difficulty in MS Windows because when I ( or…

    Mehmet Erol Sanliturk, Graeme Geldenhuys
    1
  13. FreePascal for QNX

    I already posted a question related to this topic two years ago: http://community.freepascal.org:10000/lists/fpc-pascal/2006-February/ 010111 Now this topic came back to…

    Michael Müller, Florian Klaempfl, Marco van de Voort
    9
  14. Compilation of {$I \dir1\...\dirn\x.pas } statements by FPC is NOT consistent .

    Compilation of sources having {$I \dir1\dir2\x.pas } kind statements are not giving the same compilation results by the FPC.EXE 2.2.2rc2 and FPC 2.2.0 . Assume that…

    Mehmet Erol Sanliturk, Carolos, Roozbeh GHolizadeh
    8
  15. protected members access across classes in the same package, but what about inherited cross package

    Just a question, which came to my mind in relation to http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=11697 I understand that if you declare 2 classes in the same package (same…

    Martin Friebe, Joao Morais
    1
  16. Illegal type conversion: "<enumeration type>" to "TObject"

    The following code fails to compile in Delphi mode but successfully compiles in objfpc mode: type TEnum = (a, b, c); var AValue: TEnum; AObject : TObject; implementation…

    Sean McIlwain, Boian Mitov, Craig Peterson
    17
  17. Re: Re: Illegal type conversion: "<enumeration type>"to "TObject"

    So this is not some regular type cast but some hack for Delphi - I fixed this in trunk by also allowing typecasts from enumerations (formerly only integers were allowed)…

    Schatzl Thomas, Boian Mitov, Craig Peterson
    3
  18. Fw: Re[2]: Re: Illegal type conversion: "<enumeration type>"to"TObject"

    Well, at first it's better because we wouldn't discuss it. I used it because I was not sure, whether TObject nature may matter or not in Delphi and FPC I used (I could…

    Пётр Косаревский
    0
  19. Unicode Letters

    Is there a way to separate unicode letters from punctuation and the like? The reason is simple: I would like to separate words in a text for a spell-checker. I see there…

    theo, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, ik
    4
  20. C style operator doesn't work with properties in 2.3.1

    After our discussion about not being able to use Include() with a class property, I thought I would then use the C Style += operator. After all that boils down to: i +=…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Boian Mitov, Daniël Mantione
    29
  21. Re: Incompatible Types: got "untyped" expected "<procedure variable type of procedure(Pointer);Register>

    Please submit bug with compilable sample code without requiring external units. Peter

    Peter Vreman
    0
  22. re: Incompatible Types: got "untyped" expected "<procedure variable type of procedure(Pointer);Register>

    Is there some reason why this can't be handled automatically in Delphi mode? In the example (and every case where it's an issue in our code), the callback is a…

    Craig Peterson, Micha Nelissen
    4
  23. [patch] minor changes to fcl-db codegen unit fpccgtiopf.pp

    This needs to be applied from the trunk directory. All very minor changes... Changes include * Minor classname adjustment * Query.SQL.Text ---> Query.SQLText…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  24. Tiburon compatibility

    Apparently the new Delphi version (Tiburon) will change the way strings are handled by the rtl and the compiler, this changes affects Unicode characters specially.…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, Marc Weustink
    1
  25. Incompatible Types: got "untyped" expected "<procedure variable type of procedure(Pointer);Register>

    I'm getting a Error: Incompatible Types: got "untyped" expected "<procedure variable type of procedure(Pointer);Register> when compiling the following code. This…

    Sean McIlwain, Mattias Gaertner
    1
  26. The usage of Include() doesn't work any more in 2.3.1

    ------------------------- snip -------------------------- Include(WindowAttributes, waStayOnTop); // <== doesn't compile with FPC 2.3.1…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Ales Katona, Daniël Mantione
    16
  27. iconv unit/problem

    because there are several bugreports asking for an iconv header translations, and one contained a patch from Whitewind which I tried to cleanup and get working. I now…

    Marco van de Voort, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  28. FPC version 2.2.2 RC2 is out

    After some testing and fixing minor installation and other issues, RC2 for version 2.2.2 is available for testing. Downloads for major platforms…

    Michael Van Canneyt
    0
  29. Serial unit for windows

    I have made some modifications to the windows unit of Luis R. Hilario B. in order to pave the way for cross-platform usage. I would like to have feedback before touching…

    Stephano
    0
  30. [patch] - making the FPCUnit unit tests compilable again.

    The attached patch fixes the FPCUnit's unit tests so they can compile again. Minor changes. - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    3
  31. Optimization -O2 on Linux AMD64

    Hi. Today i was hunting malicious error. System: AMD64 Linux, fpc from svn rev 11355. program o2; uses sysutils; function MSecsToTimeStamp(MSecs: comp): TTimeStamp; begin

    Unknown author
    0
  32. Armel-linux Run time error

    Hi Following is the back trace of ./firework which is an nucurses example in fpc-svn/packages/ncurses/examples. It used to execute well about 15 days back. I am using…

    Nataraj S Narayan
    0
  33. Support for pascal function evaluation in GDB

    what is a current state of evaluation of pascal functions while debugging via GDB? I have filed a bug report in GDB bug tracker…

    Tom Gregorovic
    0