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fpc-pascal · 2006-04

  1. Internal error 200203271

    When I ty to compile fpc-svn for arm-linux it stops with Internal error 200203271 when buildgtk2.pp/gtkspinbutton.inc is compiled. I backtraced this : Breakpoint 1,…

    Koenraad Lelong, Marco van de Voort, Peter Vreman
    10
  2. Porting jcl to fpc on linux : Status and some questions

    I've started porting, so far I have ported about 50% of jcl. Right now I am stuck with a few questions: fpc 2.1.1 does have better support for WideStrings. Any idea when…

    Michael Ring, Burkhard Carstens, Marco van de Voort
    2
  3. aterm won't run fp

    Hi all Even though I don't have a solution to the previous problem, I already have another one. A while ago I tried 'fp' and didn't get anything. Not having time, I…

    John Coppens, Marco van de Voort, Micha Nelissen
    3
  4. eof strangeness

    Hi all. While modifying some older programs, I found a strange effect with eof (input). When calling eof(input), the program needs an <enter> key to continue. The…

    John Coppens, Bob Richards, Jonas Maebe
    4
  5. const parameter writeable

    Are const parameters supposed to ensure read only access? If so how come one can write to a typed pointer? program project1; {$mode objfpc}{$H+} type PSomeRec =…

    L505, Jonas Maebe, Michael Müller
    9
  6. FPC/Lazarus foundation: The developer's answer.

    For the people on the fpc-pascal mailing list that are not subscribed on the Lazarus mailing list, the following mail is a response to the request of some Lazarus users…

    Michael Van Canneyt
    0
  7. fpc exec/shell vs win32API

    On XP/98, I've coded some successful file and directory action a couple of different ways with exec and the native Dos commands in FP that are working OK, but as I…

    Unknown author
    0
  8. google summer of code?

    Would'nt it be a good idea to register for the google soc? It is a good way to attract developers and get things done quickly. Krishna You think you know when you learn,…

    Krishna, Alexandre Leclerc, Dale Welch
    21
  9. Problems compiling wince cross-compiler

    I recently heard that wince cross compiler is now fixed. But I did a svn update and tryed to compile it with my usual compile script and got these error messages: lot´s…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    0
  10. fpc make

    OS: Linux Distro: Knoppix, Knoppel Issue: fpc update and compile FPC revision: 3341 --- I used to "svn update" on fpc installation folder getting current revision. Then…

    MAGENTA LTD
    0
  11. fpc and intel vtune

    Now: I have downloaded evaluation version of intel VTune 8.0 and tried to debug/optimize an application with it. It does not recognize symbols in FPC module (function…

    Пётр Косаревский, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    22
  12. Doc file errors

    I spent time yesterday trying to look up DOS commands on the FPC website and was unable to reference DosExitCode, Exec and some others I knew should have been there on…

    Unknown author
    0
  13. FPC on NetBSD (i386)

    NetBSD is not on fpc's list of supported operating systems, although there is an older version available (1.0.10) which works fine, at least for my purposes. I've tried…

    Adrian Maier, Jonas Maebe, Marco van de Voort
    16
  14. RTTI ressource effects

    is there any rule of thumb how enabling RTTI will influence the speed and memory usage? Marc

    Marc Santhoff, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  15. ParamStr(0) bug??

    I have written a program who's behavior depends on the name by which it has been invoked. This is not uncommon, for instance sendmail invoked as mailq behaves in a…

    Bob Richards, John Coppens
    2
  16. Win32 DOS programming - best practices?

    I´m working on an FPC Non-gui program that will need to do some dedicated things on 98 and XP machines, (and eventually *nix), such as test for running Apps, kill Apps…

    Unknown author
    0
  17. [OT] CTags Tool for Object Pascal Language

    The Exuberant CTags program supports over 30 programming languages including Standard Pascal. For C and C++ it does a fantastic job of indexing all routines and…

    Unknown author, Graeme Geldenhuys, Marco van de Voort
    4
  18. x86_64-win64

    People following the svn changes recently might have noticed that a lot of changes regarding win64 happened. So we're proud to announce the first x86_64-win64 snapshot…

    Florian Klaempfl, Bisma Jayadi, constantijnw
    15
  19. another fpc RAD: MSEide

    Movie: ===== For those who did not try MSEide yet, here is a movie teaser. http://users.pandora.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/mse01.html Wiki: ===…

    Den Jean, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    45
  20. test - please ignore

    test

    Adrian Maier
    0
  21. fpc + linux, problem with VarArrayCreate, variant

    helllo! in first step V must be array type (V := VarArrayCreate) in second step type varBYte. In delphi and lazarus everything is ok. in fpc 2.0.2 (linux) program show…

    Ryszard Kadow, Flávio Etrusco
    1
  22. Recursive unit/include search path

    -Fu/home/me/project1/units/*.* Is there an existing recursive option like this for -Fu and -Fi? Could be useful, but dangerous if directories contain different versions…

    L505, Marco van de Voort, Peter Vreman
    3
  23. Division by Zero - not raised exception

    FPC 2.0.2 do not rasie exception on integer/floats division by Zero, which is suitable for calucaltion I currently developing. Instead, division return infinity:…

    Sasa Zeman, Alain Michaud, Alexandre Leclerc
    43
  24. hot pass $LCL_PLATFORM to fpc.cfg from command line

    Hi I want to pass directive from command line to fpc.cfg in fpc.cfg I have something like this -Fu/home/me/project1/units/$LCL_PLATFORM and I want to compile my program…

    darekM, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  25. Recursive unit search path

    -Fu/home/me/project1/units/*.* No such thing for FPC, right? Recursive units searches? Could be useful, but dangerous if directories contain different versions of the…

    L, Jonas Maebe
    1
  26. Re: size/speed/compiler - Was:another fpc RAD: MSEide

    Okay so we have to now consider these points: 1. interpreted languages can take up less memory if engineered right (says Florian) 2. compilation and linking is a hassle…

    L505, Florian Klaempfl, Jeff Miller
    7
  27. alignment

    Win32, i386. In FPC 2.0.3 -Oa option is described as "<type>=<values>". This is hard to understand. What should -Oa=16 mean? Probably, it could be better decribed. (If I…

    Пётр Косаревский, Jonas Maebe
    2
  28. FPC and Lazarus as a main RAD tool?

    From: "Jonas Maebe" FPC and Lazarus are currently not sutable as a main tool RAD (at least on Winodows). If you have Delphi (7) Studio licensed RAD and developing…

    Sasa Zeman, Alain Michaud, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    11
  29. Is somebody working on making jcl work again with fpc (on linux)

    I am currently doing the switch from Kylix to FreePascal. Current versions of jcl do not compile very well with FreePascal on Linux because defines are missing. Does…

    Michael Ring, Florian Klaempfl, Marco van de Voort
    5
  30. big const arrays

    Is there any easy way to create big array of constants? Does it matter (with maximum optimizations switches), if my >50 Kb array is defined as constant? That is: are…

    Пётр Косаревский
    0
  31. Re: Ageware: Gameos

    First of all - please, send general questions like this one to a mailing list rather than to an e-mail address of one particular person (like myself). Regarding to what…

    Tomas Hajny, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Jonas Maebe
    2
  32. gprof win32

    How can one use gprof under win32? While it is possible to download one or another gprof, fpc reports linking error: "ld.exe: cannot find -lc".

    Пётр Косаревский, Krishna, Peter Vreman
    5
  33. pc -> fpc porting question: reset()

    Hi all. I'm a pascal noob who was given the task to compile a couple of ancient pascal files, originally written for "Sun Pascal pc compiler". Since I don't know…

    Daniel Franke, Jonas Maebe, Michael Van Canneyt
    7
  34. Fast CRC32

    Hello , I need to know whether someone has fast routines to calculate crc32 of let's say 64 k buffer. Any help would be appreciated Pianoman ----- Original Message -----…

    Pianoman, Sasa Zeman
    1
  35. bug in online docs, " spam entry not allowed " in bug report system

    In online docs, programmer's guide, 11.3 I read, that either -O3 or -Ou enable uncertain optimizations. It seems to me, that only -Ou is to be mentioned (compiler tells,…

    Пётр Косаревский, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  36. real numbers infinity

    when a real number overflows the program halts with EInvalidOp error. How can I make the program behave the more standard way, where the variable gets the value "inf"…

    Dimitrios Apostolou, Dimitris Apostolou, Florian Klaempfl
    6
  37. SVN release #3198 building by 2.0.2 - crash

    This bug report cannot be submit. Log of SVN release #3198 building by 2.0.2: C:/pp/bin/i386-Win32/gmkdir.exe -p units/i386-win32…

    Sasa Zeman, Jonas Maebe
    1
  38. ERROR in webpage "Link don't work"

    ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/Source/short/compsrc.zip i realy need this to see how you can start a compiler, your new version's are to complex to a 16 year old…

    AgeWare None, Tomas Hajny
    1
  39. Cross compiling from win32 to linux

    I try to crosscompile in win32 to linux with fpc 2.1.1. I use the options: -Sd -B -Tlinux The compiler compiles all the sources without problem, but the linker reports…

    Adrian Veith, Peter Vreman
    1
  40. Internal linker status

    What is the current states of internal linker developing? Sasa www.szutils.net

    Sasa Zeman, Florian Klaempfl, Marco van de Voort
    16
  41. When are used units recompiled?

    In a programming course that I teach, some students are using Lazarus+FPC instead of Delphi. I made available two precompiled units, that is, the *.ppu and *.o files. …

    Tom Verhoeff, Giovanni Premuda, Jonas Maebe
    28
  42. DLL and SO with Free Pascal

    excuse me if I have included the code, but I really need help. I have: 1) spa.c (coded in ANSI C) which compiled with mingw produces "spa.dll", and compiled with gcc…

    Jilani Khaldi, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  43. fpdoc document *.pas;*.inc

    What command would be used to run FPCdoc on all files in a directory. PSEUDO EXAMPLE: (crashes fpdoc) fpdoc --package=Test --input=*.pas;*.inc;

    L505, Jeff Pohlmeyer, Michael Van Canneyt
    8
  44. RAW sector read...

    I'd like to read raw sectors (blocks) from removable devices (such as USB drives) from Linux and/or Windows. Is there any possibility to use FPC with that? Mihai

    MihaiR, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  45. how to pass PChar (or any pointer) from Delphi to FPC ?

    I can transfer information from Delphi program to FPC, but they have different memory managers or something, so pointers are the same numbers, but different physical…

    Пётр Косаревский, Alexey Pavluchenko, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    5
  46. Re: Re[2]: how to pass PChar (or any pointer) from Delphi to FPC ?

    Each and every process has its own virtual memory space under win32 (and most other operating systems). You cannot access the same physical memory this way (not in…

    Jonas Maebe, Пётр Косаревский
    2
  47. Async

    Any code examples using FPC libsync available. Thanks P Davidson Corax Networks Inc. http://CoraxNetworks.com

    Paul Davidson, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  48. problem compiling svn-fpc for arm-linux

    Since a while I'm experiencing problems compiling fpc from svn for arm-linux. When "make CPU_TARGET=arm OS_TARGET=linux all" arrives at assembling system.pp for arm it…

    Koenraad Lelong, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    9