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fpc-devel · 2010-05

  1. Armel problems

    I am investigating why Qt on armel has problems. I think that one of the problems is that when c-functions are called from pascal that the parameters are not passed…

    Den Jean, Luca Olivetti, Michael Schnell
    9
  2. fcl-web example and new testsuite website

    Maybe you know this site: http://www.freepascal.org/testsuite/cgi-bin/testsuite.cgi with the results of the automatic testruns for each night. I've made a new version,…

    Joost van der Sluis, ABorka, Florian Klaempfl
    17
  3. var param as property index?

    I don't think the following is intended? (it compiles with trunc). Note the property index is a var param TForm1 = class(TForm) private function GetFoo(var Index:…

    Martin, dmitry boyarintsev
    1
  4. Backport request for 2.4.2: Improved Interfaces support

    I worked through the various patches in 2.5.1 to see what is required to successfully backport the improved Interfaces and Interface Delegation support into 2.4.2. Below…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Joost van der Sluis, Martin Schreiber
    7
  5. Class extension

    Okay, so the whole Observer Pattern discussion this morning went way off track after I mentioned this idea, but a few people expressed interest in my proposal: So, what…

    Matt Emson, Jonas Maebe, Joshua Cearley
    3
  6. Customer Done procedure for dynamic arrays

    I use dynamic arrays for data structures and sometimes types. Under linux I have had no problems with transversing the list of data and calling "Done" on all types then…

    Andrew Brunner, Jonas Maebe, Marc Weustink
    2
  7. Work in progress: Support for dynamic libararies/package

    I was wanting to know the status of FPC being able to leverage dynamic libraries as a place to store objects and have them loaded/unloaded plug-in style. The fpc site…

    Andrew Brunner, Marco van de Voort
    1
  8. Generics problem

    I've just encountered a generics problem and wanted to know if it was intentional... uGenerics.pas generic GObjectList<_T>=class(TList) private FIndex : integer; private…

    Andrew Brunner
    0
  9. FPC ignores additional compiler parameters

    FPC ignores additional compiler parameters specified in a external file http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=16558 I've only testing with FPC 2.4.1, but assume the…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  10. Error compiling fpc trunk after changes

    I added EditMask property to TField in fpc trunk. To be Delphi compatible i created a type TEditMask in MaskUtils unit, so the need to put MaskUtils in the uses of db.…

    Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
    2
  11. Interface delegation fix: backport to FPC 2.4.2 ...?

    Is the following bugfix (original target was 2.4.0) going to make it into FPC 2.4.2? I'm about to implement something in fpGUI and would really like to use the Observer…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Bee Jay, Dimitri Smits
    94
  12. http://freepascal.org/develop.var is outdated (points to 2.2 branch)

    The FPC "Development" page (http://freepascal.org/develop.var) still links to 2.2 releases and branch, no mention of 2.4... Flávio

    Flávio Etrusco
    0
  13. Arm9 V5

    I am trying a Hello World program on a embedded Linux board but get the error Illegal instruction when I try to run the program When I make the compiler I use these lines

    Carsten Bager, Henry Vermaak, Jonas Maebe
    2
  14. TDataModule doesn't call inherited

    Hi The following two methods in TDataModule do not call inherited in their implementation. So if anything gets introduced in TComponent and lower, that code will not…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  15. Parameters must match exactly?

    I tried using FPC 2.5.1 today to see how compatible is our application with it compared to FPC 2.4.1 I got stacks of the following errors. Why is this change forced in…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Adem, Aleksa Todorovic
    73
  16. Should TAutoIncField be read only?

    Until a few moments ago i would say yes because it seems logical and fpc raises an exception when trying to set the value programatically. But while investigating why…

    Luiz Americo Pereira Camara, Joost van der Sluis, Michael Van Canneyt
    6
  17. Re: Interface delegation fix: backport to FPC 2.4.2 ...? (fwd)

    Forwarded here, so everyone can see it. I mistakenly replied to Marco alone. Michael. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 09:39:29 +0200 (CEST)

    Unknown author, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  18. Missing from documentation

    * Shouldn't Specifiers be mentioned in the Language Reference doc chapter 1? Similar to modifiers - they are not reserved words, but also not encouraged to use as…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe, Marco van de Voort
    4
  19. order of tar parameters during make zipinstall

    make zipinstall does not work for my busybox tar the call to tar is made like this: /bin/tar cfvz /svn/fpc/fpc-2.5.1.arm-linux.tar.gz * but my system tar wants the…

    Den Jean, Joost van der Sluis
    2
  20. Branching 2.4.2 is imminent

    L.s. the FPC team plans to start preparations for a 2.4.2 this month. By this message I would like to encourage everybody to test recent snapshots as much as possible,…

    Marco van de Voort, Joost van der Sluis, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
    4
  21. Troubles with FPDOC in 2.5.1 and 2.4.1

    This never happened before when I generated fpdoc help for tiOPF. I tried now with the latest fpdoc in Trunk (2.5.1) and I get the following errors. I then tried with…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Marco van de Voort, Mattias Gaertner
    18
  22. Bus error in fpc_PopAddrStack

    I get a bus error in fpc_PopAddrStack (on ARM-Linux) in a multithreaded application. Maybe, that the local Pointer hp in fpc_PopAddrStack is loaded with an unaligned…

    Bernd Mueller, Jonas Maebe
    3
  23. FPC + Haiku: how good is it?

    Recently I have been playing with various OSes and various linux distros on my laptop (while I have a spare drive with no data). This is something I haven't done in…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Matt Emson, Olivier Coursiere
    6
  24. fcl-image: gray-alpha png issue

    When fixing lazarus issue #13266 I noticed that in case of reading 8 bit gray-alpha images, the order of the gray and alpha channel are swapped. The attached patch fixes…

    Marc Weustink, Marco van de Voort
    2
  25. TProcess capability to run app bundles

    I was thinking. Which design should be used to add support in TProcess for running app bundles? I suppose a new routine, ExecuteBundle, for example. Or else checking if…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Jonas Maebe
    1
  26. heaptrc and memory changed after released

    It is possible to compile heaptrc with -dFPC_EXTRA_HEAP (or similar) In this case all memory is kept after release, and checksummed. When the program terminates it will…

    Martin
    0
  27. List of changes merged into a branch

    We are trying to find a regression introduced between FPC 2.2.2 and FPC 2.2.0 in Windows CE so we have come down to testing multiple versions of branches/fixes_2_2/ The…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Florian Klaempfl
    2
  28. Win64 FPC is in wrong download location

    Going to SourceForge to download the Win64 version of FPC, you have to navigate into the Win32 folder?! Surely it would make more sense to rename Win32 to Windows (so it…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, ABorka, Andrew Brunner
    79
  29. Lazarus compile dialog and include files not reflected in display during build process

    You know, I had this idea and I was wondering if this is already done or do-able... Periodic (every hundred+milliseconds) writing of a stats file. When fpc compiles…

    Andrew Brunner, Jonas Maebe
    1
  30. New FCL docs (PDF) has formatting mistakes

    ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.0/docs/ The FCL documentation for the DB unit has some formatting mistakes (pdf version of docs). In the PDF document, some…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  31. SourceForge docs not updated - where are new docs?

    Michael announced on 6 Mar that the FPC 2.4.0 docs have been update due to the new docs for the DB unit. Well, looking on SourceForge (link found from Free Pascal…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    1