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fpc-devel · 2009-08

  1. UTF-8 patch for the video unit

    spent some time today, trying to make the text mode IDE look pretty under modern Linuxes and here's the result - a patch for UTF-8 console output. Previously, only BeOS…

    Nikolay Nikolov, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    6
  2. Re: XML canonical

    Well, consider you as as the xml maintainer so it's up to you :)

    Florian Klaempfl, Dariusz Mazur, Sergei Gorelkin
    6
  3. new TMultiReadExclusiveWriteSynchronizer

    As I mentioned in the fpc-pascal mailing list. The current implementation is wrong and is actually the equivalent of Delphi's TSimpleRWSync class. I submitted a patch to…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe, Martin
    3
  4. web site up-to-date

    bugs on: http://www.freepascal.org/develop.var 1. (trunk - currently v2.3.x) should be 2.5.x 2. size of trunk: fpc.zip…

    Dariusz Mazur, Joost van der Sluis
    1
  5. DOM patch

    Hi I use DOM from fcl-xml both for Delphi and FPC development. I work with older version, till I notice serious bugs. Today i've upgrade it from current svn. And…

    Dariusz Mazur, Jonas Maebe, Marco van de Voort
    9
  6. arm binutils

    when trying to build arm crosscompilers on Mac OS X and make packages for fink, I did not manage to get the binutils for arm-gba, arm-nds, arm-palmos, arm-symbian nor…

    Karl-Michael Schindler
    0
  7. New CHM documentation snapshot

    I uploaded a new snapshot of the docs in CHM format. http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/doc-chm.zip Fixes in this snapshot: - the last snapshot had corrupted links -> fixed. -…

    Marco van de Voort
    0
  8. handling of 2.3.x (new 2.4) branch

    How does the FPC developers manage the 2.3.x (up coming 2.4) branch? Is it similar to the the Lazarus "fixes" branch, where fixes are applied to trunk and then merged…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    11
  9. Firebird shared library name change

    I noticed that on newer Ubuntu Linux systems that the name of the Firebird shared library has changed for v2.x versions of Firebird Database Server.…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Desmond Coertzen, Joost van der Sluis
    4
  10. FPC 64bit performance

    I switched to a full 64bit system last Friday. Over the weekend I read the following in the MSEide&MSEgui newsgroup. Is this true or still the case wit FPC 64bit…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe, Vincent Snijders
    4
  11. patch to call DoneKeyboard in the exitproc of the drivers unit

    Does anyone have an idea why the call to DoneKeyboard was previously commented? It leaves the keyboard in a bad state if the IDE crashes.

    Nikolay Nikolov, Daniël Mantione, Jonas Maebe
    5
  12. arm eabi test suite

    I've managed to run a native testsuite on my nslu2, I can email the tarball if anyone is interested (I think the mailing list will reject it). There are a couple of…

    Henry Vermaak, Jonas Maebe
    2
  13. Threads under Windows 64bit W7_64bit

    Has someone tested threads under windows 64bit W7_64bit ? See this bug report: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=14389 Mattias

    Mattias Gaertner, Bernd Mueller, Florian Klaempfl
    3
  14. Please merge r13537 to fixes_2_4

    Please, merge r13537, a fix for compiling for wince to the fixes_2_4 branch. http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?diff_format=l&view=rev&revision=13537 Vincent

    Vincent Snijders, Florian Klaempfl
    2
  15. Mac OS X Common Pascal Interfaces

    Thanks to an svn dump kindly provided by Peter N Lewis (and a subsequent import by Florian), the Mac OS X Common Pascal Interfaces (MacOSAll and all files it's generated…

    Jonas Maebe
    0
  16. Can someone confirm if this is a bug? (ancestor in TWRiter.WriteProperty)

    I am not very familiar with the code, so before reporting, I'd like to ask: trunc\rtl\objpas\classes\writer.inc procedure TWriter.WriteProperty(Instance: TPersistent;…

    Martin, Michael Van Canneyt, Paul Ishenin
    4
  17. Website connectivity

    In the past, some people reported problems connecting to the main FPC website or the main SVN repository. Typical symptoms were empty HTML pages, but pinging to the…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Axel Scheepers, Jonas Maebe
    4
  18. RTTI and Attributes in Delphi 2010

    Just thought I would let you know... http://www.malcolmgroves.com/blog/?p=476 - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe, listmember
    22
  19. TBufDataSet Stream Error

    i'm trying to use TBufDataset as a very simple mem dataset but i get a "Stream read error". I can reproduce it, but first is it legitimate to use TBufDataset like this ?…

    Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis, Joost van der Sluis
    1
  20. Questions regarding PostgreSQL support in SqlDB

    I have recently been playing around with PostgreSQL and SqlDB. I seem to have quite a few problems. tiOPF's test suite normally gives database components a good workout…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Desmond Coertzen, Joost van der Sluis
    5
  21. csInlin how is it suppossed to work?

    Yes it is strange..... I am down to rtl\objpas\classes\writer.inc line 599 if (FAncestor is TComponent) then begin FAncestors:=TStringList.Create; if csInline in…

    Martin
    0
  22. Circular references or Forward Declarations

    Lance posted this in the Lazarus mailing list, and I think it is more appropriate here... I can't agree more. Sometimes there is a valid design for something like that.…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe, Martin
    2
  23. fpTimer causes memory leaks

    I just wanted to warn you guys that the fpTimer.pp unit causes memory leaks. It was originally based on my code (which I still have). I first tried with the TFPTimer…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Vincent Snijders
    2
  24. fppkg testing

    Currently there is only one package available when I do the following ================================ $ fppkg list Name Installed Available lnet …

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Marco van de Voort, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  25. XML canonical form

    Hi Is any way to convert xml to canonical form when DOM is used Darek

    Dariusz Mazur, Michael Van Canneyt, Sergei Gorelkin
    2
  26. Interfaces documentation suggestion

    Below is part of the Interfaces documentation. I disagree with the documentation mentioned below. ================================ Interfaces - section 7.1…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt, Sergei Gorelkin
    5
  27. type x = type byte // in overloaded params with/without var

    I read up on http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-devel/2006-October/009116.html I understand that assignment is still possible via := / due to implicit conversion.…

    Martin
    1
  28. Possible memory leak in cthread.

    The program: program memleak; {$mode objfpc}{$H+} uses cthreads; begin end. If I run the program using valgrind I get the following output: ==1944== Invalid free() /…

    Wimpie Nortje, Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe
    10
  29. [PATCH] patch to allow TUnzipper to load it's zip file from wherever

    This patch allows TUnzipper to load it's file from any TStream descendant instead of only using a FileName to load a zip stream. Andrew Haines

    Andrew Haines, Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  30. -CR (method checking) and casting of classes

    I am wondering if the code below is valid or not. It executes, but compiled with -CR gives a runtime error in fpc_check_object xfoo is a variable to store a class of…

    Martin, Jonas Maebe
    1
  31. 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
  32. Differential tree

    Has anyone implemented an OOP version of the differential tree? Mattias

    Mattias Gaertner
    0