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fpc-pascal · 2007-02

  1. How to get UTC time

    I work on a program wich need the UTC time, and this program will run with Windows and Linux. So how is it possible to calculate the UTC time under these two OS. For…

    Michel Meunier, josepascual, Marco van de Voort
    9
  2. arm big endian questions and info

    hi all i managed to build a ppcarm (msb) over the last couple of days. there were a couple of problems, most problematic of which were that the compiler (ppccrossarm at…

    Henry Vermaak, Daniël Mantione, Florian Klaempfl
    21
  3. Function to set high and low Dword of a QWord

    I'm looking to a function that will take two DWord as arguments and and returns a Qword where the low 4 bytes are the first DWord and the High 4 bytes the second DWord.…

    Luiz Americo Pereira Camara, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    6
  4. Pascal is alive!!??

    In the ACM-ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest dropped pascal for this year final competitions and for next year, the students are not allowed to use…

    Unknown author, Daniël Mantione, Florian Klaempfl
    24
  5. Wikies

    Are the wikis being merged? Is it my impression, or is there a main page for compiler things missing? When I go to fpc page and click on Wiki it shows lazarus-ccr wiki,…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Florian Klaempfl, Micha Nelissen
    14
  6. Assigning a virtual class method to a method pointer

    I need to check if a virtual class method was implemented in an specific subclass. I am assigning two methods to two method pointers, casting to tmethod and comparing…

    Joao Morais
    0
  7. Flushing serial inque on Linux

    I am trying to flush the serial inque on Linux with no success. So far I have: procedure FlushInQue(lHandle: Longint); var QueSelector: Longint; begin QueSelector:=…

    Bernd Mueller, Marco van de Voort
    3
  8. fpc assembler

    Is it possible (ok, without too much work) to make a standalone version of the assembler buried inside fpc? Would be interesting as it would be able to handle both AT&T…

    Krishna, Daniël Mantione
    1
  9. fpc have problem with dynarray in ARM

    I have testing ppcrossarm 2.0.4 (also 2.1.1 in other situations) for ARM It work enough good I have introduce in the test program Dynamic Array. It's working well in…

    Jose Pascual, Micha Nelissen
    2
  10. FPC for Scratchbox-ARM (compiling with errors)

    I'm tryng to compiling fpc compiler and units under scratchbox for ARM I have crosscompile, with fpcarm in linux i386, fpcmake and pp for ARM, I have copy to scratchbox…

    Jose Pascual, Daniël Mantione, Florian Klaempfl
    14
  11. Advantages of Pascal

    when I was younger (about seven years ago), I wrote several programs in Borland's Turbo Pascal version 7 (IIRC). I then learned C and haven't looked much at Pascal ever…

    Patrick Leslie Polzer, Daniël Mantione, Florian Klaempfl
    8
  12. Re: Some features I use daily in FPC I hope

    And you are absolutely correct. I forget this because I have the FPC configuration set to always use the 32 bit sized integer. As for Cardinal being only 32bit - that…

    Jason P Sage, Marco van de Voort
    1
  13. Some features I use daily in FPC I hope never go away!

    I Hope the following never goes away - I use this stuff all the time! Types ----- Cardinal, Pointer, Integer Always evaluate to the endian in use.…

    Jason P Sage, Daniël Mantione, Marc Santhoff
    2
  14. open array and 2.1.1

    the following code: ==== program testarray; uses classes; procedure testparam(aarray: array of tclass); begin end; begin testparam([nil, tlist, tstringlist]); end. ====…

    Joao Morais, Jonas Maebe
    2
  15. sqldb firebird on linux can't find client lib

    I have a console FPC application which uses sqlDB to connect to Firebird 2, using TIBConnection, TSQLTransaction, and TSQLQuery. The application run very well on win32…

    Bisma Jayadi, Dean Zobec, Marc Santhoff
    10
  16. Pascal and regexes

    I'm using TRegex to process stuff that I'm receiving from an RS232 port, actually connected to a Tek 'scope. If I have an incoming message like ACQ:08080E3150; and apply…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd
    0
  17. support for FreeBSD4 broken in fpc 2.0.4

    I haven't noticed up to now, but using fpc-2.0.4 on FreeBSD does not work completely in FreeBSD 4.11 any more. Observations: - Compiling fpc 2.0.4 works. - Compiling…

    Marc Santhoff, Marco van de Voort
    7
  18. Compile library with Linux

    My library under Windows is now OK, it use an UDP socket with the Synapse units (wonderful job). Now I want to compile it under Linux. The compilation is OK, but when I…

    Michel Meunier, Daniël Mantione, Florian Klaempfl
    6
  19. Commercial components port taskforce

    Today, for me) one of the biggest problem to use Lazarus and FPC in commercial application is the lack of visual components. Of course, i didn't have enough spare time…

    Marc PERTRON, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    3
  20. First beta for MSEide+MSEgui version 1.2

    There is a first beta of the upcoming version 1.2: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=165409 New in version 1.2: - Visual form inheritance. - Report…

    Martin Schreiber
    0
  21. Compiling fpc inside scratchbox

    Is it possible compiling FPC inside scratchbox (with any target for example scratchbox for arm)? If yes, how could I do it? Jose Pascual

    Jose Pascual, Daniël Mantione
    1
  22. Web site translation

    please note that I have problems translating the followin items in FAQ Section 1. General Information: items 17, 26 and 28 because of missing bullets. I'd like to…

    Tiziano_mk, Daniël Mantione
    2
  23. Windows-->Linux library

    With your help, my initial library .dll writen with Delphi, is now working at about 95% when compiled with fpc. Now my goal is to get a .so library under Linux. So I…

    Michel Meunier, Darius Blaszijk, Leducq Dominique
    6
  24. Florian Blog?

    Just looking on page: http://www.freepascal.org/aboutus.var I found that there is a link to Florian's blog: http://www.de.freepascal.org/~florian/nucleus/ but I got the…

    Tiziano_mk, Florian Klaempfl
    1
  25. Question on how to avoid memory trouble

    This is exactly the kind of thing my string class works great with. It's a dynamic double linked list - and the way its set up - there are three versions - the simple…

    Jason P Sage, Cox, Stuart TRAN:EX
    15
  26. Web site translation: error

    trying to update translation in FAQs page: section 1 item 4: After pressin Update button I get: ----------- Errore del server(acs-tcl.Server) There was a server error…

    Tiziano_mk, Daniël Mantione
    1
  27. New stylesheet for fpcunit xml reports

    Dean Zobec created a new xmlreportwriter for fpcunit. Among others it supports nested test suites. Does anybody have a stylesheet for showing such a report. Maybe…

    Vincent Snijders, Dean Zobec, Graeme Geldenhuys
    13
  28. Exception callstacks, backtracks...

    Basically I want to get a stack trace and log it when a special exception occurs. All I could find about was the lineinfo.pas (and -gl switch) but that does not help…

    m utku, Jonas Maebe, Luiz Americo
    5
  29. FPC for SCO Unix

    We're presently using an *old* (DOS) Pascal compiler on SCO Unix. Unfortunately, we've reached the end of the usable life of this compiler. The replacement we've…

    Daaave, Daniël Mantione, Dave Walker
    8
  30. Compiler bootstrapping?

    I am not sure to understand this text from FPC FAQs item no. 3. Can someone explain better? Bootstrapping: FPC requires a suitable set of binutils (AS,AR,LD), gmake and a

    Tiziano_mk, Daniël Mantione, Jonas Maebe
    6
  31. GetPropValue and a class property

    Hi In the help page http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/rtl/typinfo/getpropvalue.html it mentions that it is not implemented due to missing Variant support. Is this…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    0
  32. CSV

    I'm also using CSV handling in my programs, and I do it in the following way, since I also have these problems: * I use not ";" separator, but TAB (#9) separator, which…

    Antal, Luiz Americo, micahel schneider
    2
  33. JCL-1.98.1.2509 and FPC (Linux)

    JCL-1.98.1.2509 came out fairly recently. Does anyone know if it works with FPC? on Linux? Wayne

    Wayne Sherman, Cox, Stuart TRAN:EX
    13
  34. Copy and Dynamic Arrays

    How do I copy Dynamic Arrays? I can't do what I used to in Delphi, using the Copy() function, as FPC keeps telling me I have the wrong number of parameters. Doesn't FPC…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Florian Klaempfl, Henry Vermaak
    2
  35. making fpc

    I downloaded teh fpc sources on my Intel Itanium 2. I types sudo make and it gave me the following, what should i do?: make: -iVSPTPSOTO: Command not found make: -iSP:…

    Bobby Walters, Florian Klaempfl
    1
  36. Sockets IO speed

    an old e-mail on the Lazarus mailing lists says: topic: [lazarus] c faster than pascal? was: Compiling GlScene ... [ skip ] [ skip ] Does FPC use such buffer when doing…

    Alexander Todorov, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  37. MSEide+MSEgui version 1.0

    MSEide+MSEgui version 1.0 is released: http://mypage.bluewin.ch/msegui/ Have a lot of fun! Martin

    Martin Schreiber, Daniël Mantione, Krishna
    4