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fpc-pascal · 2006-09

  1. Who applies patches for FPC

    Is there someone in charge of applying patches to FPC? If so, is that someone on leave? I have noticed quite a few patches being sent to FPC-Devel mailing list, but…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Burkhard Carstens, Leonardo M. Ram�
    7
  2. ASM Converting from Turbo Pascal

    in fpc you have to tell the compiler which registers are used in asm code. for example asm mov ax,123 end [eax]; Is it possible to make a compilerswitch that the…

    Rainer Stratmann, Peter Vreman
    2
  3. Mouse cursor in console program

    I tried to google for it, I searched in the documentation, but no luck: How to remove the mouse cursor that shows up in a w32 console program, when running fullscreen?…

    Kornel Kisielewicz, Tomas Hajny
    1
  4. fpdoc and overloaded functions.

    What is the best way to document overloaded functions using fpdoc? For example, I have a Find function which has been overloaded four times with different parameters. …

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    3
  5. Shared library

    If I create a shared library with this source code, the lib file has a size of 368806 bytes. Can I do anything to reduce the size. Carsten ------------------------…

    Carsten Bager, Graeme Geldenhuys, Marc Santhoff
    2
  6. FPC Qt4 Binding V1.18

    FYI: The FPC Qt4 binding now also includes support for MS Windows Linux X11 and OS X support were already present. Den Jean

    Den Jean
    0
  7. ANN: Synapse release 37

    FYI: New Synapse has been released. This release needs FPC 2.0.4 and using native FPC sockets.pp interface for support of various unix/linux platforms. Have a fun! Lukas…

    Lukas Gebauer
    0
  8. Caching a big file on memory

    Hello: I have a little problem, i participe in the 'Large Compression Benchmark' (http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/text.html) and need to cache the whole enwik8…

    Eduardo, Jonas Maebe, Leonardo M. Ram�
    7
  9. h2pas and implicit types

    I'm currently working on a h2pas gui for lazarus. (lazarus/components/h2pas/h2paswizard.lpk). h2pas does not translate every c 'sugar'. 1. Example #define MPI_ARGV_NULL…

    Mattias Gaertner, Marc Santhoff, Vinzent Höfler
    2
  10. line numbers in valgrind output ?

    I can't figure out how to get source code filename & line numbers in Valgrind output. What is the correct flags association ? I tried -gv, -gv -g, -gv -gw, -gv -gl,...…

    Dominique Leducq, Florian Klaempfl, Leducq Dominique
    6
  11. 16bit String

    I was thingink, what if someone should implement in the fpc compiler a 16 bit String, which should work exactly as the 8bit string, which only can handle a 256 char long…

    Antal, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    1
  12. h2pas won't compile

    trying to fiddle with h2pas it cannot be compiled: $ gmake h2pas gmake -C h2pas all gmake[1]: Entering directory…

    Marc Santhoff, Florian Klaempfl
    2
  13. Function Pointers

    I am trying to use function/procedure pointers with the FPC version 2.0.2 on Windows 2000. The complete test program is given below. The error is "Wrong number of…

    Brent Smith, Burkhard Carstens
    1
  14. The crt unit

    If you run this small program on a Linux machine (386/Arm), you will se that if you presses the keys so 2 or more lines are written and then presses the 'a' key that…

    Carsten Bager
    0
  15. TCustomApplication.CheckOptions

    Either I spotted a bug, or I don't understand the algorithm. TCustomApplication.CheckOptions should check for a command line like this: program -B file Where -B is a…

    Mattias Gaertner, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  16. patch - types.pp (InflateRect)

    I sent a patch for this before on the 25 July, but it hasn't been applied yet. I think the reason might have been due to that patch file containing a new Size() method…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  17. Data exchange between programs

    I have 2 FPC programs running on a Linux machine, is there an easy way to exchange a few data between these programs (I do not want to use disk operations). I was…

    Carsten Bager, Dominique Leducq, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    7
  18. Delphi ShareMem -DLL-pchar

    Can anyone comment on the Delphi unit "ShareMem" and if FPC ever did any work to incorporate what this Delphi unit is doing for DLL shared memory managment? I'm looking…

    afpTeam, Matt Emson
    2
  19. TurboExplorer

    It looks like TurboExplorer wait time is finished but...Can't download anithing :( Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com…

    Leonardo M. Ram�, Matt Emson
    1
  20. Linux-64 distro recommendation

    Any recommendation regarding free linux 64 bits desktop and server distros? Its completely new to me.

    Coco Pascal, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    3
  21. Find the nature of a pointer

    I have a function that will receive a Handle. That handle could be a pointer to a structure, or a object. Is there any safe way to discover it's nature? The following…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Jonas Maebe, Marco van de Voort
    6
  22. NewStr error in RTL documentation

    I found that the documentation of the rtl (objects unit) contains a small error in the Synopsis of the NewStr function. It says: "Synopsis: Allocate a copy of a…

    Leonardo M. Ram�, Peter Vreman
    3
  23. Windows XP Theme

    Does anyone know how to use QThemed with kylix ?

    Unknown author, Graeme Geldenhuys
    1
  24. broken link

    Hello, I didn't know where to post this so I apologize ifI am posting this to wrong place. I wanted to know what's new in FPC 2.04 but the file whatsnew.txt is not there…

    Krekan, Tomas Hajny
    1
  25. Why Pascal

    I just found this article. If anyone needs/wants to promote pascal as a language, there are some nice arguments here. http://www.codexterity.com/raw-delphi/

    Andreas Berger, Rimgaudas Laucius
    1
  26. Slow compilation

    Hi, does anyone know why lazarus have a slow compilation?

    Unknown author, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Flávio Etrusco
    5
  27. flag or exception?

    Hi all... I've always been confused about this subject... flag or exception for error handling? Can anyone share knowledges and ideas about when and where and why a…

    Bisma Jayadi, Micha Nelissen, Michael Van Canneyt
    3
  28. Httpd (apache modules)

    I downloaded the httpd wrapper and examples from http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/FPC_and_Apache_Modules and can't start my Apache 2.2.3 server on Win2k SP4 when…

    Leonardo M. Ram�, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Jesus Reyes
    3
  29. Timer for Windows/Linux

    I need to implement a routine on my sofware to be executed each 5 minutes. I'm using just FPC (without lazarus) becuase my software will run as a console application and…

    Fabrício F. Kammer, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    5
  30. Ansi strings

    Here is 2 examples of how the fpc compiler dos when comparing a string constant with a pchar . The first is compiled with the 204 compiler and second one is compiled…

    Carsten Bager, Jonas Maebe, Marc Santhoff
    5
  31. Delphi collaborates FPC?

    http://blogs.borland.com/nickhodges/archive/2006/08/26/27022.aspx#FeedBack What do you think? :) -Bee- has Bee.ography at: http://beeography.wordpress.com

    Bisma Jayadi, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Florian Klaempfl
    21