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fpc-devel · 2010-02

  1. RTL and Unicode filenames operations.

    Hello, FPC developers Any hints on these bugs? http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=12923 http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=15642 // patch proposed to workaround…

    dmitry boyarintsev, Daniël Mantione, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    51
  2. Compiler 240 (and MySql)

    I have a problem with the new 240 compiler. I get errors when calling functions in the sysutils unit. I have tested the 251 compiler, and it was exactly the same. I am…

    Carsten Bager, Bernd Mueller, Jonas Maebe
    6
  3. 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
  4. fpc on arm-linux-uclibc and OABI

    Hi I am using fpc/lazarus +qt-embedded-opensource-4.5.2 on arm-linux-uclibc based SBC The code works only it the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT=y Does it…

    Nataraj S Narayan, Florian Klaempfl, Florian Klämpfl
    15
  5. Native compilers for non-x86

    I'm having another of my periodic attempts at getting various systems up-to-date here, and I wonder if I could ask for help with build problems. First machine is an…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Henry Vermaak
    2
  6. Help with Lazarus

    Hi I need help finding the compiler on my computer using Mac OS X 10.6.2. Every time I launch Lazarus IDE I get a message saying that the Free Pascal Source Directory is…

    Jordan Levy, dmitry boyarintsev, Jonas Maebe
    6
  7. procedure ... message(); in Linux

    What messages does it capture ? How to send a message from a thread ? How to send a message from another process ? I do know that there are other (supposedly more…

    Michael Schnell, David W Noon, Graeme Geldenhuys
    51
  8. FourCharCode expression for objective-p mode

    Jonas, would it be possible (and logical) to allow FourCharCode for objectivec1 mode s witch? Since Objective-C mode is used only on MacOSX it would be easier to declare…

    dmitry boyarintsev
    0
  9. current_procinfo

    Does current_procinfo in the compiler sources always denote a global procedure, never a nested one ? Adriaan van Os

    Adriaan van Os, Florian Klaempfl
    2
  10. TMultiReadExclusiveWriteSynchronizer does not allow "read lock" promoting to a "write lock"

    Hi The TMultiReadExclusiveWriteSynchronizer implementation does not allow "read lock" promoting to a "write lock". The program above hang in FPC 2.4 and 2.5.x while…

    Inoussa OUEDRAOGO, Nikolai Zhubr
    2
  11. FPC win32 snapshot (release building test)

    I built a snapshot-setup for win32 to test a few release engineering changes with respect to the installer. Since it can also double as a test for post 2.4.0 textmode…

    Marco van de Voort
    0
  12. Fwd: GDB 7.0.90 available for testing

    This is the pre-release for GDB 7.1 Begin forwarded message:

    Jonas Maebe, Marco van de Voort
    2
  13. Full_Version_String in an application

    Is it possible in an application to somehow get the information about FPC version was used to compile this application (in the form of string or integers, whatever)?…

    Nikolai Zhubr, JoshyFun
    3
  14. TProcess, bash, and escaping quotes

    I'm working with TProcess, which for the most part I love, but I'm scratching my head right now because of a problem I'm experiencing. Suppose I have the following…

    Seth Grover, cobines, Graeme Geldenhuys
    8
  15. GetHeapStatus.TotalAllocated

    after switching to FPC 2.4.0 I've noticed that: 1) GetHeapStatus.TotalAllocated does not seem to reflect size of allocations made by other threads anymore (I can provide…

    Nikolai Zhubr, Jonas Maebe, Marco van de Voort
    24
  16. MemSize argument validity

    I've just discovered that passing an invalid pointer to MemSize() results in a bogus value returned and no error generally reported. Is this intentional? Example: var a:…

    Nikolai Zhubr, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Flávio Etrusco
    8
  17. Correlation between TFPColor and RGB values (possible inconsistencies)

    While trying to get the RGB values (bytes) of a TFPColor i got confused about the format of TFPColor Some hardcoded colors (unit FPImage) like colGray, colTea sets the…

    Luiz Americo Pereira Camara, Graeme Geldenhuys, JoshyFun
    19
  18. TCustomApplication.Log(?)

    I want to add (abstract) logging functionality to TCustomApplication. I see three options: One: Add a public TEventLog property to TCustomApplication. Then deratives of…

    Joost van der Sluis, Graeme Geldenhuys, Martin Schreiber
    17
  19. FreeMem and MemSize

    Is it on purpose that FreeMem() and MemSize() return different values for the same pointer? (AFAICS currently MemSize returns netto whereas FreeMem returns brutto) Thank…

    Nikolai Zhubr
    0
  20. Questions about TEventLog

    I use logging a lot. It is my primary method of debugging FPC-based code. 99% of the time I use the logging features of tiOPF project. I have never used TEventLog, but…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  21. In Lazarus fpweb action procedure names no longer include the action name

    When creating a web application, for example CGI Application in Lazarus, and adding an action to the web module, the automatically generated procedure name only contains…

    ABorka, Joost van der Sluis, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  22. fpdoc listing supported Interfaces in class docs

    Is there a parameter or something in fpdoc that can output in the generated help the supported interfaces of a class? For example: Something like the output generated by…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  23. fpc 14894 svn does not compile

    gives the following error for "make all" (win xp 32bit) C:/pp/bin/i386-win32/ppc386.exe -Ur -Xs -O2 -n -Fui386 -Fusystems -FuC:/.../fpc_svn/rtl/units/i386-win32 -Fii386…

    ABorka, Burkhard Carstens, Jonas Maebe
    9
  24. Bug Tracker & Wiki server is down

    Could somebody give the server hosting the Bug Tracker & Wiki a kick in the butt. It's not responding. I can access any other websites, so it's not my internet…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  25. RFC: changing conditional compilation

    The problem I'm trying to solve is that I find the $define system to have a (an unnecessary) propensity for errors caused by typos; if you don't agree please ignore my…

    Flávio Etrusco, Jonas Maebe
    4
  26. mem-leak in TStrings.SaveToFile?

    See here the code from TStrings.SaveToFile: Procedure TStrings.SaveToFile(const FileName: string); Var TheStream : TFileStream; begin…

    Joost van der Sluis, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  27. Debugging operators' overloards

    is there any known limitation on gdb integration or the debuginfo that prevents gdb from stopping on breakpoints inside operator overload functions? Flávio

    Flávio Etrusco, Jonas Maebe
    1
  28. Bugtracker - registration

    Apparently there is some problem with bugtracker. Yesterday I tried to create an account, but never got a confirmation email. I then tried a "lost password" feature,…

    Nikolai Zhubr, Jonas Maebe, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  29. ref.tex documentation mistake

    I updated my fpcdocs repository from r625 (pre 2.4.0 release) to r634 (post 2.4.0 release), but still found a bug in documentation and missing information related to FPC…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    3
  30. Fpsigprocmask

    Hi RTL/libc experts. I'm trying top port the TNoGUIApplication (Linux version) I found in MSEIDE to Lazarus. Here Martin uses a function called "m_sigprocmask". In his…

    Michael Schnell, Jonas Maebe, Marco van de Voort
    42
  31. version info resource reading

    Hello, FPC developers' list. I need to read version info I put to resource and I tried to use TVersionResource class for that. It has LoadData method. So I tried: var…

    Paul Ishenin
    1
  32. Announcing releases on LWN

    maybe it's a bit late to bring this issue (for the current releases), but is there a reason there was no announcements for the later FPC releases and no Lazarus…

    Flávio Etrusco
    0
  33. Patch proposal

    Please someone consider the patch below. The patch is against current svn snapshot. Thank you! --- rtl/linux/linux.pp.orig Sun Nov 30 01:00:22 2008 +++…

    Nikolai Zhubr, Marco van de Voort
    2
  34. tree.log

    When compiling with verbose option -vp, a tree.log file is created with a parse tree. This is quite useful for compiler development. The tree.log is created right after…

    Adriaan van Os
    1
  35. Ubuntu 9.10 x64 AMD Debugging multi-threaded system impossible

    Is it just me who's having a problem with debugging threaded apps under Ubuntu? I have a manager worker threaded networking engine I'm trying to debug. Windows 7 has no…

    Andrew Brunner, Anton Kavalenka, Jonas Maebe
    6
  36. FPC OpenSSL Library Implementation

    I'd like to see more work done on the openssl implement. The data structuctures need more work. Cert management is needed too. Anyone want to contribute code? I'm…

    Andrew Brunner
    0
  37. RTL FindResource supports only PChar

    Hello, FPC developers' list Is this supposed to be so? Why not to create an unicode version with PWideChar arguments and do as in other places {$ifdef Unicode} ? From…

    Paul Ishenin
    0
  38. compiler output and resources

    Hello, FPC developers' list. Is there a reason that during project compilation compiler duplicates all the resource files in the compiler output dir? For me it looks as…

    Paul Ishenin, Giulio Bernardi, Marco van de Voort
    5
  39. Compiler bug?

    I hope I'm doing something really dumb, but I have to say it is stuff like this that is really disheartening to me. I've been using FPC/Lazarus for a year now and I have…

    Paul van Helden, cobines, Daniël Mantione
    7