Hi everyone,

I have a little question to ask. If one wishes to request new features for a future version of Free Pascal, how does one go about it and what is the process of determining if it is a good idea or should be dropped, as well as any cross-platform and language nuances that need sorting out?

Kit

Put it in the bugtracker. If it needs a long explanation/many considerations: make a WIKI page first and refer to it in the bugtracker.

Michael.

J. Gareth Moreton wrote

I have a little question to ask. If one wishes to request new features for a future version of Free Pascal, how does one go about it and what is the process of determining if it is a good idea or should be dropped, as well as any cross-platform and language nuances that need sorting out?

ML, http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Feature_Ideas ?

Bart

But please make sure that any wiki page is marked as being for the discussion of a suggestion, and that it's deleted if not adopted. The wiki's already got a maintenance problem with outmoded examples etc.

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote

But please make sure that any wiki page is marked as being for the discussion of a suggestion, and that it's deleted if not adopted. The wiki's already got a maintenance problem with outmoded examples etc.

As pinted out, there already is a wikipage for this kind of proposals.

Bart

Thanks for the answers everyone. I've
added my suggestion near the bottom of the
page. I wasn't sure because what I propose
is a language feature, namely per-type
byte alignment.

Kit

On Tue 05/12/17 13:05 , Bart
sent:

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Mark

Morgan Lloyd

> But please make sure that any wiki

page is

marked as being for the > discussion of a suggestion, and that

it's

deleted if not adopted. The wiki's > already got a maintenance problem with

outmoded

examples etc. As pinted out, there already is a

wikipage for this kind of proposals.

Should I still open a bug/feature request though? When it comes to high-performance applications such as games and scientific/mathematical programs, I feel this is quite important.

Kit

On Tue 05/12/17 17:34 , "J. Gareth Moreton" sent:

(Just bringing it up here because I've noticed that the feature ideas page doesn't tend to get many updates.)

Okay, I've put forth two feature requests over here: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Feature_Ideas#FPC (I made a new "FPC" section because these are language features rather than components or anything to do with the IDE). One is the aforementioned byte alignment feature, and the other is Microsoft's "vectorcall" calling convention for Win32 and Win64.

I hope the ideas are not fundamentally flawed.

Kit

On Tue 05/12/17 20:50 , "J. Gareth Moreton" sent:

J. Gareth Moreton wrote

Should I still open a bug/feature request though? When it comes to high-performance applications such as games and scientific/mathematical programs, I feel this is quite important.

I believe that the feature request entry in Mantis (referring the created Wiki page) would be indeed useful.

omas

Tomas Hajny wrote

On Tue, December 5, 2017 21:50, J. Gareth Moreton wrote:> Should I still open a bug/feature request though? When it comes to> high-performance applications such as> games and scientific/mathematical programs, I feel this is quite> important. I believe that the feature request entry in Mantis (referring the createdWiki page) would be indeed useful.

Agreed, but I think https://sourceforge.net/projects/vectorpascalcom/ is also noteworthy.

Given it's licensed under the GNU GPL, I
wonder if there's some optimisation
paradigms that we can use from there as
well, such as loop unrolling and the like.

Kit

On Wed 06/12/17 08:08 , Mark Morgan Lloyd
sent:

On 05/12/17 22:15, Tomas Hajny wrote: > On Tue, December 5, 2017 21:50, J.

Gareth

Moreton wrote:> Should I still open a

bug/feature request though? When

it comes to> high-performance

applications such as> games and

scientific/mathematical programs, I feel

this is quite> important.

> I believe that the feature request

entry in

Mantis (referring the createdWiki page)

would be indeed useful.

Agreed, but I think

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vectorpas
calcom/ is

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