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fpc-devel · 2011-03

  1. RFC: customvariant handling in variants.pp and fmtbcd.pp

    I would like ask for your opinion in this case. I found, that in this sample program is raised "Invalid variant ..." var bcd1: TBCD; v,v1: variant; s: string; begin…

    LacaK, Sergei Gorelkin
    11
  2. How to get FPC to generate floating point instructions for ARM?

    I am trying to understand how to work with the various floating point options available for FPC when running on ARM under Linux. I'm not to familiar with all this so…

    michael, Helmut Hartl, Jeppe Johansen
    12
  3. TryStrToBCD inverted

    Am I the only one who finds it strange that TryStrToBCD returns false when it succeeds, and true when it fails? The Delphi documentation says otherwise. I don't…

    Joost van der Sluis, Hans-Peter Diettrich, LacaK
    33
  4. The future of fpmake

    I'm using fpmake more and more in my projects (large or small) and from time to time I come across some limitations that need to be resolved. In the past I have supplied…

    Darius Blaszyk, Florian Klaempfl, Hans-Peter Diettrich
    41
  5. Class helper: small differences between FPC and Delphi

    Hello together! While cleaning up the tests a bit (splitting them in "class helper", "record helper" and "general" tests) I noticed two small differences in my…

    Sven Barth, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    9
  6. FPC for minimal Win-32

    I'm currently looking at the potential of a minimal Win32-compatible OS called Sanos, which supposedly implements a useful subset of the Windows console-mode API. As a…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, José Mejuto, Pierre Free Pascal
    11
  7. Interrupt vector table generation

    As I wrote a while back, I would like to make it easier to handle interrupts when using fpc for embedded work The current solution is to use procedure variables with…

    Jeppe Johansen, Florian Klämpfl, Jonas Maebe
    11
  8. (class) helper questions

    Hello together! I'm coming along with the class helpers rather well, but I've got still a few questions. :) 1. As I'm going to implement record helpers in the next time…

    Sven Barth, Alexander Klenin, Florian Klaempfl
    19
  9. const parameter passing

    Finally I'm not alone anymore in repeating this over and over again: http://twitter.com/kylix_rd/statuses/48210052770836480 :) Jonas

    Jonas Maebe, Martin Schreiber, Unknown author
    3
  10. Re-installing fpc

    I re-installed Linux, trashing the root director<y while keeping the user's home directories. Now I need to re-install fpc (which I provide the newest svn version to all…

    Michael Schnell, Henry Vermaak, Jonas Maebe
    12
  11. FmtBCD unit improvements / bugs

    I would like to ask somebody to look at these bug reports: 1. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=18388 This bug report contains implementation of missing BcdToStrF…

    LacaK
    0
  12. Assignment to for..in loop variable

    Currently, this code: var i: Integer; a: array [1..10] of Integer; ... for i in a do i += 1; Is compiled and silently does nothing. Assignment to the for..in loop…

    Alexander Klenin, Jonas Maebe
    1
  13. Forward definitions of nested classes in outer scope

    Could someone check whether or not this compiles with Delphi 2009+ ? **** type tforward = class; tc = class type tnest = class end; end; ty = class function f: tforward;…

    Jonas Maebe, Willibald Krenn
    1
  14. Please add gitignore file

    Although svn remains the primary source control version of FPC, some people (me included) prefer git for developing it. It would be helpful for those people if FPC…

    Alexander Klenin, Florian Klaempfl, Juha Manninen
    3
  15. Fcl-Web 404 error

    Hi, does anyone knows how to return a correct 404 error from an fcl-web cgi app?. I'm doing this: procedure TFPWebModule1.myRequest(Sender: TObject; ARequest: TRequest;…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, Unknown author
    4
  16. Error compiling trunk on FreeBSD

    Hi, I'm trying to compile the r17057 on FreeBSD x86_64 and I'm getting this error: fpc/rtl/units/x86_64-freebsd/cpu.s:40: Error: no such instruction: `cmpxchg16b (%r8)…

    Leonardo M. Ramé, Alexander Klenin, Florian Klaempfl
    14
  17. GetMem(SomePointer, 0) nil

    Hello, FPC developers' list. I noticed today that if I want to allocate 0 bytes I get not a nil but a valid pointer. Why? This is incompatible with delphi. And I suppose…

    Paul Ishenin, Alexander Klenin, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    16