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fpc-devel · 2009-10

  1. fp IDE with libgdb

    Late last year I raised a perplexing issue where fp (the character-mode IDE) bombed when calling libgdb on SPARC, a backtrace appeared to show that garbage was being…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Jonas Maebe
    13
  2. First cppclass test

    Hello together! After I sent the first Native NT patches to the bugtracker I found some time to test the cppclass-feature. The following class compiles with 2.5.1:…

    Sven Barth, Florian Klaempfl
    5
  3. Compiling fpc subversion on a AMD64 box with Win 7 64 bit OS

    i have to ask what is the official process to compile the fpc svn on a AMD64 machine and 64-bit OS. I have a machine with AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core and Windows 7…

    Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    6
  4. New feature discussion: for-in loop

    Hello, FPC developers' list. I think we can close 'sealed/abstract class' page and open another interesting topc. It is obvious you are full of energy to discuss new…

    Paul Ishenin, Alexander Klenin, Dariusz Mazur
    114
  5. Want to remove AVL_Tree from DOM

    I want to remove the avl_tree-related stuff from DOM unit. The reasons are: 1) It is targeted to optimize one particular type of documents, "configs", that require all…

    Sergei Gorelkin, Inoussa OUEDRAOGO, Marco van de Voort
    8
  6. size of extended

    in the freepascal "programmers guide" it says "For all other processors which support floating point operations, the extended type is a nickname for the type which…

    peter green, Jonas Maebe
    1
  7. Bug 14937

    Please kill this bug, the real issue is on bug 14936. The first issue issue timed out when attaching the sample file. The sample was was over 2MB, so I removed the…

    Desmond Coertzen, Vincent Snijders
    1
  8. csize_t

    In the past there was a csize_t which I used in the imagemagick headers, but now it seams to have disappeared. Is size_t compatible with the c type? Or else any other…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys, Ivo Steinmann
    9
  9. TObject differences between fpc and delphi

    Hello, FPC developers' list I have compared what d2010 TObject has and found a few differences: 1. Dispatch method is virtual 2. new method: class function UnitName:…

    Paul Ishenin, Flávio Etrusco, Florian Klaempfl
    20
  10. documentation: RTL > SysUtils > CreateGUI

    While testing fpGUI DocView, I came across the following bug. http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/createguid.html In the "See Also" section, link is…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  11. request to merge fpdoc patch with 2.3.1 fixes branch

    I submitted a minor patch for the 'fpdoc' tool. Could this be merged with the v2.3.1 branch as well, so that it is available in the next stable FPC release?…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Marco van de Voort, Michael Van Canneyt
    6
  12. fpdoc linear writer question

    Looking at the fpdoc linear writer unit (dwlinear.pp), there are two calls I don't understand. In the procedure TLinearWriter.WriteProperty() These is a call to…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  13. Pascal based debugger - Duby and Sybil projects

    A few weeks ago I heard about the Duby project [http://sourceforge.net/projects/duby/], which is implementing a custom written debugger using Free Pascal. It just…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, dmitry boyarintsev
    2
  14. Request to merge revision 13841 into fixes branch

    The cited revision fixes a bug that prevents proper work of Lookup fields in TSqlite*Dataset Luiz

    Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
    1
  15. ncurses example on arm linux uclibc

    Hi While trying to compile 'firework.pp' under packages/ncurse, for arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi- Since my target SBC dont have libncursesw.so i did a symlink to…

    Nataraj S Narayan, Jonas Maebe, Micha Nelissen
    17
  16. FPC 64bit and gdb on Linux

    x64 Suse 11.1, the program: " program gdbvarparam; {$ifdef FPC}{$mode objfpc}{$h+}{$endif} {$ifdef mswindows}{$apptype console}{$endif} uses sysutils; procedure test(var…

    Martin Schreiber, Bruce Bauman, Jonas Maebe
    7
  17. Help need for FPC

    First of all, let me thank you for the great compiler you've already created and for maitining for a lot of years, already. Second, using FPC, i've designed my own (open…

    Михаил Абаляев, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    6
  18. mingw libraries for C API bindings

    I am trying to write fpc bindings for the GraphicsMagick imaging library. Since it's a fork of ImageMagick, its API is basically the same. I know there is a similar fpc…

    Wolfram Kläger
    0
  19. Unsubscribing myself

    Just wanted to post before doing it, I'm unsubscribing from Lazarus and FPC mailing lists (except core) for now. I get tons of msgs daily I no longer read (except about…

    Aleš Katona
    0
  20. GTK vs GTK2

    I have a stupid question, but I can not for the life of me figure this out quickly: Recent official release of lazarus was 0.9.28, it is based on fpc 2.2.4-0. The…

    Desmond Coertzen, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Graeme Geldenhuys
    4
  21. custom building & installing 32 & 64bit FPC

    I want to start FPC 2.5.1 development work (various fpdoc, fcl etc changes), but I still need to keep around the binary installs of 2.3.1 (32 & 64 bit) for production…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  22. Changes in TComponent, TReader, TWriter

    There were changes in the TComponent base functionality in FPC trunk recently. Please note that I do not use FPC trunk for MSEide+MSEgui so I do not test this…

    Martin Schreiber, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  23. New feature discussion: LAMBDA

    Hi Based on discussion about "for in" I want to suggest my proposition. When we investigate some code, sometimes we found pattern: Pattern 1: / begin startfun; try ...…

    Dariusz Mazur, Graeme Geldenhuys, ik
    11
  24. Test

    Just subscribed, testing system. Nino

    Unknown author, Marc Weustink
    1
  25. Question about PDF & PS documentation layout

    In the PS or PDF versions of the RTL documentation, and then the reference information about the 'SysUtils' unit. In my docs it's chapter 37. The sysutils unit has…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  26. class abstract, class sealed implementation. please review.

    Hello, FPC developers' list This is my first compiler patch. So please be indulge. I tried to implement support for delphi sealed and abstract classes. They are…

    Paul Ishenin, Alexander Klenin, Andrew Brunner
    104
  27. New global CustomApplication variable

    In fpc 2.5.1 I've introduced the global CustomApplication variable in the custapp unit. The idea is that when this variable is set when a application-object is…

    Joost van der Sluis, Marco van de Voort, Martin Schreiber
    26
  28. msgtxt.inc and msgidx.inc

    BTW, I have already asked in the beginning of the thread, but got no answer: why are those files under version control at all? Alexander S. Klenin

    Alexander Klenin, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    8
  29. What is the correct full name for FCL + fpdoc help

    I'm busy updating the fpdoc IPF output. Question 1: What is the correct full name for FCL? In the documentation, wiki and other websites I have found references to the…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    1
  30. trunk does not compile on windows

    Hello, FPC developers' list "PX_SdnToGregorian" symbols is not found. I looked to the pxlib package and there it is defined for all platforms except windows :) Paul…

    Paul Ishenin, Lee, John
    1
  31. Cardinal = LongWord on 64bit systems?

    Based on the FPC documentation for integer types, is says that a Cardinal type can be either word, longword or qword (sizes being 2, 4, 8 bytes) based on the platform…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Henrick Hellström, Marco van de Voort
    6
  32. Plain tarballs

    Would it be possible to get plain tarballs of freepascal hosted on the website? I am working on a zeroinstall feed for freepascal and I have ran into various issues with…

    Neil Graham, Graeme Geldenhuys, Marco van de Voort
    5
  33. embedded arm port

    I'm trying embedded arm port (LPC2xxx) and I want to contribute to the full port. I'm adding new controllers right now. I just wanted to know, from compiler side, what…

    Unknown author, Bernd Mueller, Florian Klaempfl
    14
  34. FCGI example?

    I am trying to make a working example for FCGI with Apache 2.2 on Windows but does not seem to be successful. Created a simple FCGI program with 1 action replying with a…

    ABorka
    0
  35. New CHM documentation snapshot

    Last night I added binary index support to the CHM package, and regenerated all CHM packages, and packaged a new snapshot (nr 7) http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/doc-chm.zip…

    Marco van de Voort, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  36. CHM patches for docs and fpdoc

    Hi attached patch for fpdoc adds the option --chm-title so that a nicer title than the default (rtl,fcl,lcl etc) can be used. The second patch is the documentation for…

    Andrew Haines
    0
  37. SetString difference between Ansistring and UnicodeString

    While running valgrind on fpcdoc, I got a warning in Procedure SetString (Out S : UnicodeString; Buf : PUnicodeChar; Len : SizeInt); It assumes that the Buf is null…

    Vincent Snijders, Marco van de Voort, Sergei Gorelkin
    13
  38. gdb: "Cannot find new threads: generic error"

    linux-i386 Suse 11.1, binutils 2.19.51-15.1, the program: " program gdbthread; {$mode objfpc}{$h+} uses cthreads,sysutils; begin end. " The compile - debug session: "…

    Martin Schreiber, Jonas Maebe
    6
  39. gdb shows wrong type info

    Hello, FPC developers' list. This was reported few days ago on the Lazarus mail list and probably was not noticed by FPC developers: Compile any application with stabs…

    Paul Ishenin, Jonas Maebe, JoshyFun
    4
  40. gdb 7.0 new features

    Hello, FPC developers' list What of new gdb 7.0 features will be used by FPC? I see only 3 features: - Multi-byte and wide character set support GDB has a new data type…

    Paul Ishenin, Jonas Maebe
    1
  41. Bug in FPC 2.2.2 asm, Win64 target

    When compiling the following code for Win64 using FPC 2.2.2, Intel syntax mov qword [rdx ],$08C9BCF367E6096A the compiler generates a movl instruction for just the…

    Henrick Hellström, Jonas Maebe
    1
  42. Bootstrap fixes_2_4 x86_64 using 2.2.4 i386 error : __missing_command_CMP

    when i tried to bootstrap a x86_64 compiler from fixes_2_4 branch using a stable i386 ppc386 2.2.4 i got this error: fixes_2_4 branch revision : 13817 ppc386 -i : Free…

    Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis, Jonas Maebe
    1
  43. make all OPT="gtl"

    make all OPT="-gtl" in the fpc source fails. /home/vincent/src/fpc/trunk/compiler/ppc1 -Ur -Ur -Xs -O2 -n -Fi../inc -Fi../i386 -Fi../unix -Fii386 -FE.…

    Vincent Snijders, Jonas Maebe
    1
  44. russian compiler messages

    Hello FPC-Developers Is there anyone maintaining compiler messages translations? I have some fixes for them and utf-8 format. I know i should post them to bug tracker,…

    dmitry boyarintsev, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    11
  45. Errors using generics - what is wrong?

    I am trying to use generics but compilation fails. Whan I try to use unit with my generic class in my real project I get "Fatal: Internal error 200204175" error. When I…

    Žilvinas Ledas, Micha Nelissen, Tomas Hajny
    8
  46. Unused compiler messages

    While updating the Russian message file, I discovered that (at least) the following messages are not used in compiler source (only in msg directory and msgtxt.inc):…

    Sergei Gorelkin
    0
  47. Cant compile latest Lazarus

    Fresh lazarus svn checkout rev21988 on Linux Compiling lazconfigstorage.pas lresources.pp(2250,17) Error: Identifier not found "vaQWord" lresources.pp(2250,17) Error:…

    ABorka
    0
  48. ThousandSeparator and UTF-8

    On Linux and cs_CZ.UTF-8 locale is thousand separator set to NO-BREAK SPACE (UTF-8: 0xC2 0xA0). But ThousandSeparator variable is defined as Char. Fpc sets…

    Unknown author, Florian Klaempfl, Graeme Geldenhuys
    3
  49. [patch] Documentation generation with IPF support

    Attached is a patch for the 'fpcdocs' repository. This patch adds support for IPF output via the makefile. I have also updated the readme file with various sections and…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt, Tomas Hajny
    3