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fpc-devel · 2008-09

  1. FPC 2.2.2 on Linux/SPARC

    I'm trying to get up to date on various platforms- i386 (NT and Linux), SPARC and now ARM (both Linux). I've installed 2.2.2 on Windows and built from source for i386…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Jonas Maebe
    28
  2. Lazarus Apache module crashes during concurrent requests

    win32, latest Lazarus and FPC Any single web request call works OK, returning the content. When 2 browsers are open and calling the web module at the same time there is…

    ABorka, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Jonas Maebe
    19
  3. FPC 2.2.3 i386-darwin snapshot

    Could someone please upload 1 snapshot of the latest FPC 2.2.3 to ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/fixes/i386-macosx/ ? I would be imensely grateful. I am…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, dmitry boyarintsev, Florian Klaempfl
    15
  4. Howto hide Hint: Parameter "xxx" not used

    Hi. Is there any posibility to hide compiler hint: Hint: Parameter "xxx" not used Other hints I want to see, but this is by my opinion useless and only makes dirty…

    Unknown author, Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe
    14
  5. library export in Linux

    In the apache module examples in /fpc/packages/httpd22/examples/ all of them has a "Free Pascal only supports exporting variables on Windows" note there and something…

    ABorka, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Jonas Maebe
    17
  6. [PATCH] unix/serial.pp mods for darwin

    These additions/changes make serial.pp work for me on MacOS X 10.4 and 10.5, both PPC and Intel. Comments? Brad Dolphins are so intelligent that within a few weeks they…

    Brad Campbell, Jonas Maebe
    4
  7. Makefile deletion script

    Hi Because I cross-compile svn for arm a lot I end up with Makefiles with revision numbers and littered with >>>>>>>>>>>>Mine through them from fpcmake -r -Tall etc. It…

    Terry Kemp, Joao Morais, Jonas Maebe
    3
  8. http..www.stack.nl..~marcov..buildfaq.pdf

    Your paper Development Tutorial (a.k.a Build FAQ) by Marco van de Voort May 17 2008 in http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/buildfaq.pdf is seen here in Windows XP Adobe Reader…

    Mehmet Erol Sanliturk, Marco van de Voort
    1
  9. Is calling the Windows Unicode APIs really faster than the ANSI API's?

    Yes I know we have had lengthy discussions about this before. Everybody (whoever they might be) keeps saying that UTF-16 was chosen for Tiburon's UnicodeString because…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Aleksa Todorovic, Burkhard Carstens
    69
  10. Help on building crosscompiler with fpc 2.3.1

    At the moment, I'm developing on a i386 Linux machine. For some servers I need x86_64 binaries, so I have a second machine with x86_64 linux I use just for compiling. It…

    Lukas Gradl, Florian Klaempfl, German Gentile
    14
  11. c:\fpc\2.2.2\examples\gtk1 and gtk2 : ReadMe.TXT Additions

    In my previous message I mentioned required DLL files . (A) The following sample ReadMe.TXT file may be inserted into the following directory :…

    Mehmet Erol Sanliturk, Florian Klaempfl
    1
  12. c:\fpc\2.2.2\examples\gtk1 and gtk2 : Required DLL Files

    The examples within the following directories could be compiled with their Makefile use . c:\fpc\2.2.2\examples\gtk1\ c:\fpc\2.2.2\examples\gtk2\ (A) During execution of…

    Mehmet Erol Sanliturk, Paul Ishenin
    1
  13. libgdb: preferred version and whence?

    I find that the libgdb sources I've been using- 6.3 if I'm interpreting the name of the tarball correctly- don't compile for ARM Linux. Referring to gdbint.pp I believe…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Jonas Maebe
    5
  14. Variant streaming patches

    Dear All, can anybody say a word about variant properties streaming implementation. See the latest note on http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=10482 Anton

    Anton Kavalenka
    0
  15. Free Pascal and Graphics Programming .

    In c:\fpc\2.2.2\examples\opengl\ directory , there are demonstration programs using OpenGL . With c:\fpc\2.2.2\bin\i386-win32\Make.EXE , it is possible to generate…

    Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
    0
  16. [Patch] Unicode FPC : tkUString handling in GetStrProp/GetWideStrProp and SetStrProp/SetWideStrProp

    The patch is an attached file at http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=12224 * GetStrProp and GetWideStrProp were always returning empty string for Unicode string…

    Inoussa OUEDRAOGO
    0
  17. Unicode FPC : "WideString" and tkWString / tkUString

    Hi This program prints "tkUString". Is this by design or should it had print tkWString ? <code> program widestrprop_p; {$mode objfpc}{$H+} uses typinfo; var p :…

    Inoussa OUEDRAOGO, Florian Klaempfl
    3
  18. Strange problem with -M and -S command-line options

    Hi! I've just hit this problem, and wanted to report it, so someone can tell me if this is FPC or Lazarus bug. ================== Compiler version: 2.2.2 Lazarus…

    Aleksa Todorovic, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  19. C header conversion question

    Original C header from the Apache 2.2.9 httpd.h : -------------------------------- /** Are we still talking? */ unsigned aborted:1; /** Are we going to keep the…

    ABorka
    0
  20. [Fwd: Re: FPDoc links to RTL, FCL]

    At the suggestion of Mattias, I am also sending this to fpc-devel. I don't think it's a bug; the entries are all documented in the RTL .xml files, but when the docs are…

    Chris Kirkpatrick, Michael Van Canneyt, Vincent Snijders
    12
  21. MSG_NOSIGNAL in Mac OS X

    The sockets unit for Mac OS X (FPC 2.2.2) does not contain MSG_NOSIGNAL, which is necessary for the correct functioning of the Synapse library. I modifyed the Synapse…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Aleš Katona, Jonas Maebe
    9
  22. fcl-web improvement for apache modules, question

    I'm working on the Apache application (TCustomApacheApplication) simultaneous request handling. When the Apache module tries to create additional instances of the web…

    ABorka, Martin Friebe, Mattias Gaertner
    9
  23. Request to merge formal annotation facility into main trunk

    (I already mailed this off-list to Florian, but it might be better to discuss it on the list.) We had a student (Jochem Berndsen) who extended FPC with the following…

    Tom Verhoeff, Marco van de Voort, Michael Van Canneyt
    6
  24. fpdoc generates "line pos; 0" in html output

    I'm used FPC 2.2.3 (r11538) compiled on 2008-08-08 I generated new HTML documentation for tiOPF project. I then noticed that most (but not all) methods of classes have…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Vincent Snijders
    2
  25. What to expect if FPC fully supports unicode?

    How far will Unicode support go in FPC when it is one day implemented? Anybody know if the following is allowed in D2009? Please add to the list... :-) eg: 1..) My I…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Daniël Mantione, Marco van de Voort
    5
  26. Bug in FPC and declaring distinct types

    I was following a discussion in the delphi.non-technical newsgroup. They raised an issue about distinct types. I tried the following example under FPC and unexpectedly,…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Florian Klaempfl, Ivo Steinmann
    27
  27. FreeBSD/x86_64 snapshots

    The first snapshots of x86_64-FreeBSD are rolling in: a 26MB snapshot is available at (all binaries, just needs a fpc.cfg)…

    Marco van de Voort
    0
  28. TThread.WaitFor causes deadlock under Linux

    I posted the original message in the fpc-users mailing list, but after a few replies, I seem to think it's a bug in FPC. Hence I decided to post the message here as well.

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Peter Popov
    1
  29. Unicodestring branch, please test and help fixing

    I've continued to work on support of an unicodestring type in fpc. It's currently in an svn branch at: http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/branches/unicodestring and will…

    Florian Klaempfl, ABorka, Anton Kavalenka
    118
  30. ctypes problem

    Probably for Ivo: Suddenly a lot of units give warnings/hints like: Compiling ../inc/ctypes.pp aliasctp.inc(19,28) Hint: Type "cint8" redefinition aliasctp.inc(19,75)…

    Marco van de Voort, Ivo Steinmann
    2
  31. Questions about fcl-web and Lazarus package fpweb CGI

    I'm trying to sort out a few things with fcl-web and the fpweb Lazarus package (bug fixes etc.) and came up with some questions. 1. Any reason for having a cgiapp.pp in…

    ABorka
    0
  32. ctypes and RTL

    Hello all I messed a littlebit around with size_t and ctypes. Now I thought it's best to fix all the ctypes stuff in RTL. All that code is quite complicated and hard to…

    Ivo Steinmann, Daniël Mantione, Florian Klaempfl
    10
  33. parallel compilation support

    Does FPC support parallel compilation? For compiling itself, or for applications? - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe, Marco van de Voort
    9
  34. clocale glibc extension patch

    Hi. I'am author of initial implementation clocale. On Ubuntu I found some incompatibilities. And here is little patch, which reflects some glibc extensions to strftime.…

    Unknown author, Jonas Maebe, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  35. Mac OS X : Problems compiling system.pp under Darwin...

    I just did an svn update with the idea of rebuilding fro both Mac OS X i386 and powerpc, but when my script calls make -C darwin all The compiler seems to be in a loop…

    Dominique Louis, Jonas Maebe
    1
  36. FloatView unit available for incorporation

    On fpc-pascal, there was a short conversation earlier this month, about the FloatView unit that I developed for getting to the internals of floating-point numbers…

    Tom Verhoeff
    0
  37. Bug report 12110 needs a cleanup in the bug tracker system?

    Somebody (user name kc87654321) pooped into 12110 thinking that he/she is posting a new report. But in fact uploaded some files to an already existing bug report with a…

    ABorka, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  38. Re: Patch for rtl/inc/rtti.inc

    I don't think it's a good idea to start manually adding loop induction variables to many routines in the rtl. It makes the code less maintainable, and at one point the…

    Jonas Maebe, Daniël Mantione, Florian Klaempfl
    7
  39. Can't read file written as result of TFileStream

    I'm writing file using TFileStream (0.9.25 lazarus/fpc 2.2.2/mac os x 10.5.4). Code: TFileStream.Create(Filename,fmCreate,WRITE_FILEMODE); But then I can't read it…

    Alex Simachov, Lukas Gradl
    1
  40. Overloaded Pos bug

    In fpc revision 11746 i cannot compile this construction: program posx; var s, s1: WideString; begin Pos(s[1], s1); end. fpc -vh posx.pas Hint: Start of reading config…

    Unknown author, Vincent Snijders
    1
  41. patch for ReadInteger in sysformt.inc

    latest profiling of one of our FPC applications showed ReadInteger (in rtl/objpas/sysutils/sysformt.inc) to be a performance bottleneck. Using…

    Markus Beth, Florian Klaempfl
    1
  42. clocale unit

    Hello, FPC developers' list Please explain why clocale must be included as a separate unit to the project? Why not include it into unix sysutils? Can we freely use it in…

    Paul Ishenin, Graeme Geldenhuys, Marco van de Voort
    4
  43. Delphi 2009 trial is available for download

    Seeing that it was said a few times.... We need to wait and see how CodeGear handles Unicode strings. Well, wait no more. The Delphi and C++Builder 2009 Architect Trial…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Boian Mitov, Thaddy
    4
  44. Online RTL docs don't have stylesheet

    The online RTL documentation (HTML) doesn't have the usual stylesheet enabled. http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/index.html Actually the fpdoc.css stylesheet is…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  45. TSdfDataset does not work with records larger then 255 chars

    Using TSdfDataset my records are cut to fit 255 chars, even when I change the new MaxRecordLength property to 2048. This is a very elusive bug, and I am searching all…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Inoussa OUEDRAOGO, Luca Olivetti
    15
  46. TObjectList crash!

    Hello, FPC developers' list. We are preparing a next lazarus version and our users are heavily testing thing. One bug report let me found one error which is not a…

    Paul Ishenin, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  47. generated assembler

    I know it's possible, but I can't remember the exact FPC parameters. How do I see the assembler generated by FPC for my source code? I need to do some optimisation…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, David Pethes, Jonas Maebe
    27
  48. Sdf / Fixed maximum line length flexibilization

    Sdf / Fixed datasets have a constant for the maximum line size, but this one is too small for me, so I changed the constant into a field in the class so it can be…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Inoussa OUEDRAOGO, Micha Nelissen
    4
  49. Re: FPC unit symbol checksum woes

    This is a follow-up on a thread on the macpascal mailing list, where the problem at hand couldn't be solved. Adriaan van Os ------- While compiling a large Macintosh…

    Adriaan van Os, Florian Klaempfl, Peter Vreman
    7
  50. Bug 0011728

    Hi Michael - Bug 0011728 - FPDoc should insert <short> descriptions of inherited properties or methods into descriptions of linked descendants. Thank you very much for…

    Chris Kirkpatrick, Michael Van Canneyt, Vincent Snijders
    3