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fpc-pascal · 2008-05

  1. FreePascal on ARM Linux ,SoftFloat and EABI issues

    Hi Florian and other friends I am involved in porting existing C code to Arm Linux for AT91SAM9263 Ek board with 340x220 display. I need to write lots of console kinda…

    Nataraj S Narayan, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    17
  2. GDB Crash with FPC 2.2.1 (works with 2.2.0)

    now that the Lazarus snapshots are including FPC 2.2.1 for OS X (i386), I am using this version. I had to add the -Cg- option because my old assembly code is not…

    Tobias Giesen, Jonas Maebe
    1
  3. var r: record = () initialization

    Consider local procedure scope stack records in MODE OBJFPC: procedure.... var R1: TSomeRecord = (); R2: TSomeRecord; procedure.... var O1: TSomeOldObject = (); O2:…

    L, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  4. FPC scripting suport

    Is there any component for FPS/Lazarus I can succesfully use for scripting? I'd like to build an application that can be enhanced by some simple functions stored into an…

    MihaiR, Damien Gerard, Henry Vermaak
    11
  5. fpdoc enhancements

    At the request of some people on the lists, I added the following enhancement to fpdoc: If a method has no documentation node, the documentation will be searched in the…

    Michael Van Canneyt
    0
  6. Connecting SQL components to a propriety SQL server

    I have a friend that has a product which is composed of an embedded system spread around Brazil and communicating with a central PC. I am convincing him to migrate some…

    Andreas Berger, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  7. another pqconnection patch

    the following patch fixes the storage of floating point numbers where the decimal point isn't a dot. Joao Morais

    Joao Morais, Jonas Maebe, Joost van der Sluis
    4
  8. pqconnection patch

    The following patch fixes the reading of a bytea field from a PgSQL database. Btw is there someone working on pg's blob storage? Joao Morais

    Joao Morais, Joost van der Sluis
    1
  9. WARNING: Widestring Delete function causes crashes (FPC 2.2.0)

    the Widestring Delete function in wstrings.inc accesses memory beyond the end of the string. This causes crashes after a while. The Delete function has been fixed in FPC…

    Tobias Giesen, Jonas Maebe
    3
  10. ibconnection patch

    The following patches fixes the lack of sqlscale var when writing decimal and numeric fields to ib/fb databases. I've used the same approach used to read such fields,…

    Joao Morais, Joost van der Sluis, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  11. Sharing memory between applications

    I need to share memory between applications and wanted to know if FPC has this implemented. Today I use the windows "CreateFileMapping" function, but this is windows…

    Andreas Berger, Carsten Bager, Henry Vermaak
    3
  12. FPC Syntax

    Just for my personal knowledge, does anybody know what that syntax means : Procedure Reset(var f : TypedFile); [INTERNPROC: fpc_in_Reset_TypedFile]; (systemh.inc,653)…

    Damien Gerard, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  13. %5Bfpc-pascal%5D%20avl_tree.pp%20unit%20license&In-Reply-To=Pine.LNX.4.64.0805251018220.4326%40home.freepascal.org

    Thanks :) I think it is a good idea. When I searched the text 'General Public License' in FPC sources that comes with Lazarus 0.9.24 I found 499 files that contain it.

    Vladimir Zhirov
    0
  14. avl_tree.pp unit license

    I've got a question about the license of unit avl_tree.pp, that comes with FCL. FPC FAQ states that Meanwhile, the avl_tree.pp contains the following comment: AVL_Tree…

    Vladimir Zhirov, Mattias Gaertner, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  15. Cross-compile on Linux from 32bits to 64bits

    Dear I'm using a 32 bits Linux system to developp and i want my program to be 64 Bits compatible. What is the best method to allow my program to be compatible on 32 And…

    TOUZEAU DAVID, Jonas Maebe
    1
  16. MSEide+MSEgui 1.8rc1

    MSEide+MSEgui revision 1.8rc1 has been released: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=165409 Martin

    Martin Schreiber
    0
  17. FPC on Mac OS X

    I'm trying to run FPC 2.2 on my G5 iMac (PPC) under OS X 10.4.11. It's unclear to me if this can *only* be run from Terminal; I had expected it to be a "normal" Mac…

    Sandy Moir, Bent Normann Olsen, Damien Gerard
    11
  18. Frank Putnam is out of the office.

    I will be out of the office starting 05/23/2008 and will not return until 05/27/2008. I will respond to your message when I return.

    Unknown author
    0
  19. TList.SetCount patch

    the following patch fixes a memory leakage for lists with owned objects. (patch against fixes_2_2, sorry, at least it is an one file patch and very small) Joao Morais

    Joao Morais, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  20. Pascal parser generetor

    I know we have plex as a substitute for lex in FPC. Is there already anything to substitute yacc? Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Florian Klaempfl, Marco van de Voort
    4
  21. Can I store an object reference in C as void pointer?

    Hello. I'll create a library in Object Pascal. I'll compile it in a DLL/so/dynlib and want to define a public interface to be used in any language so I decided to define…

    Guillermo Martínez Jiménez, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    1
  22. casting interfaces and objects

    I have two questions about interface usage. 1. How interfaces are to handle when casting? Theoretically it should be safe to do this: TObservable = class public…

    Marc Santhoff, Graeme Geldenhuys, Joao Morais
    12
  23. FPC 2.2.0 / SegF in threads

    I have a program in lazarus with a thread . When there is a SegF in this thread it exits without notifying GDB. So the error is silent even with GDB (Windows/Linux/OSX)…

    Damien Gerard, Luca Olivetti, mm
    4
  24. "Interesting" hang with daemonapp under windows

    While I was trying to debug an unrelated problem with a service (written with daemonapp/lazdaemon), debugging that consisted in constantly rebooting the system to see…

    Luca Olivetti, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  25. Rtf to HTML

    Hi, does anyone knows a good Rtf To HTML converter for FPC/Delphi? I need one that accept strings/streams, not files. Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com…

    Leonardo M. Ram�, Damien Gerard
    2
  26. Playing with SpVoice (ole object)

    the following code: {$mode objfpc}{$H+} uses comobj; var vsound: olevariant; s: string; begin vsound := createoleobject('SAPI.SpVoice'); writeln('playing using literal');

    Joao Morais, Marco van de Voort, Unknown author
    4
  27. FPC Bombs

    I am a regular user of FPC and find it is a great system. I ported a 10k line application from BP7 and it ran ten times faster. I am stuck with a problem that seems to…

    John Youngquist, Jonas Maebe, Tomas Hajny
    5
  28. Re: fpc-pascal Digest, Vol 47, Issue 6

    Try to run your program from command line(CMD). If this doesn't tell you anything usefull, recompile your program with debug information on and retry. 249 Spiele für…

    Unknown author
    0
  29. Static methods fix merge

    How is the work for 2.2.2? Is it still time to ask for merges? =P http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=10998 Fixed in Revision: 10876 This fixes static…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Florian Klaempfl
    1
  30. StrToTime function

    I need the StrToTime function, but it doesn't behave well I think. A testprogram, running on Linux, compiled with fpc 2.2.0 : program TimeTest; uses sysutils; var i :…

    Koenraad Lelong, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Jonas Maebe
    2
  31. Decimal dot

    I need to log some real values so I write them to a file. Unfortunately the real's are in the form of xxx.yyy, mark the dot. If I try to import that file in OOo Calc, on…

    Koenraad Lelong, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Michael Van Canneyt
    3
  32. windows mobile API documentation

    Hello, nearly year ago, I was interested about programming for mobile phones running windows mobile like motorola mpx220 or similar ones finally I got some time to start…

    Pianoman
    0
  33. Baby steps

    I've taken a stroll into Lazarus-/FPC-land, trying to port some Delphi units that have served me well for a long time. Here are my inevitable newbie problems: 1) Have…

    Kristofer Skaug, Jonas Maebe, Tiziano De Togni
    3
  34. TTimeZoneInformation, GetTimeZoneInformation, SetTimeZoneInformation

    how are these implemented in Free Pascal? Thank you! Jilani

    Jilani Khaldi
    0
  35. Farewell

    After almost 10 years of being on this list (FPC was at about 0.9x when I joined), it occurs to me that I just don't code in Pascal any more and don't foresee doing so…

    Matt Emson, Chris
    1
  36. Switch from string to ansi/wide

    Hello: I writing an app that works with text. I use strings and define the output file as file of string. All works fine but it's limited to 255 characters. Now i…

    Eduardo Morras, Luca Olivetti
    1
  37. Pointer address into string

    Hi ! I would like to display in a lazarus application the address of a pointer. For this, I use : var s: string; p:pointer; [...] s := IntToStr(PtrInt(p)) However, I've…

    Damien Gerard, ik
    3
  38. fpreaddir

    fpreaddir -> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/baseunix/fpreaddir.html dirent record structure -> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/baseunix/dirent.html How…

    Rainer Stratmann, Marc Santhoff, Marco van de Voort
    5
  39. Pointers in Pascal!!

    I have something like this: PStruct = ^Struct; Struct = record num : integer; end; I have a unit to handle that structure ( is a bit more complicated, but is a good…

    Zaka E-Lab, Alan Krause, Hans Mårtensson
    12