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fpc-pascal · 2019-06

  1. Developing a mini ERP / web based development

    I have been asked to write a limited functionality / mini ERP type of software for an NGO that is setting up a hospital. I'm doing this in my own time and free of…

    Darius Blaszyk, Graeme Geldenhuys, Jean SUZINEAU
    15
  2. Heavy heap fragmentation issue

    I'm having a problem here in a sequential image processing application that seems to test a particularly bad operation mode for the RTL heap manager (on Windows, but I…

    Martok, Burkhard Carstens, Marco van de Voort
    10
  3. Virtual object methods

    Why do I get a runtime error with this? ============================== {$mode objfpc} program test; // http://wiki.freepascal.org/Programming_Using_Objects //…

    Ryan Joseph, Ben Grasset, Jonas Maebe
    14
  4. Troubles with SQLDBRESTBridge

    Hello together! I've played around a bit with the SQLDBRESTBridge and encountered some troubles which I wanted to check up here on the list whether those are indeed bugs…

    Sven Barth, Michael Van Canneyt
    14
  5. wiki and mailing lists are moved

    So after the too long period of the wiki and mailing lists in limbo, and facing danger of data corruption/los they've been moved to a brand new cloud hosted server.…

    Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR, Martin, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  6. Free Pascal console programs on Android are easy

    http://turbocontrol.com/gnuroot.htm is a new (unpublished) web page. Feedback appreciated!

    Paul Breneman, Mark Morgan Lloyd, Sandro Cumerlato
    15
  7. String conversions

    I’m making some string helper functions and using ansistring as inputs (in case there are longer strings than 255 chars). What happens when you pass a short string as…

    Ryan Joseph, Ben Grasset, Jonas Maebe
    17
  8. Fpc for ARM HF

    Hi all! Someone knows why, programs compiled to ARM HF target have to be linked with libc to be displayed by readelf -a as a ARM HF binary? If the program isn't linked…

    Fabio Luis Girardi, Jonas Maebe
    2
  9. Wiki: platform defines

    https://wiki.freepascal.org/Platform_defines#Operating_system_defines I 've added all defines of OS. You can tell me if it's not ok. Missed one item: 'nativent' target.…

    Alexey Tor., Sven Barth
    1
  10. Forum down ?

    I just tried to connect to https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/ and I got : "Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being…

    Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis
    0
  11. FPC 3.2 error when cross compile from Linux x64 to NetBSD

    FPC 3.2 installed in FPCupdeluxe, with Lazarus trunk. NetBSD binary is made but with such error in Laz window: Compile Project, Mode: netbsd x64, OS: netbsd, Target:…

    Alexey Tor., Schindler Karl-Michael
    1
  12. why isn't the 'exit' in the finally end clause executed?

    Using fpc 3.0.4, Lazarus 2.0, the following simple program program tryfinally; begin   try     Writeln('before finally');   finally      Writeln('inside…

    Dennis, Alexander Grotewohl, Jonas Maebe
    4
  13. OpenBSD platform define

    I cannot find such in the https://wiki.freepascal.org/Platform_defines - its missed? Alexey

    Alexey Tor., AlexeyT, Sven Barth
    2
  14. Source file macro

    Is there a macro for the path of the source file being compiled? I could swear there was something like FPC_SOURCE_FILE but I can’t find it now. Ryan Joseph

    Ryan Joseph, gabor, Markus Greim
    6
  15. not inlined?

    The method TDictionary.IsSet is not able to be inlined but why not? What are the rules to inlining in FPC? I know calling inherited is not possible (makes sense) but I…

    Ryan Joseph, Ben Grasset
    3
  16. server up?

    Is the fpc-devel server back up yet? I’m not seeing new messages getting posted. Ryan Joseph

    Ryan Joseph, Florian Klämpfl
    1
  17. Using constants in constant record definition

    I'm just porting some C code to pascal. This code contains constant structure definitions which use other constants of simple types. However FPC reports "Error: Illegal…

    Simon Ameis, Bart, Dejan Boras
    6
  18. Move of mailing lists to another server

    The mailing lists will be moved to another server. As a result, their operation will be temporarily suspended. Normally, they should be back some time tomorrow (CEST).…

    Jonas Maebe
    0
  19. wiki.freepascal.org is down?

    Hi I get empty pages when browsing http://wiki.freepascal.org/ Is it some bug or I am doing something wrong? Denis Golovan

    denisgolovan, Dmitry Boyarintsev, Jonas Maebe
    6
  20. Class field property access

    I found a restriction in properties which is a little disappointing. I get there’s probably some objective of safety but Pascal is a direct memory access language so I…

    Ryan Joseph, Michael Van Canneyt, Sven Barth
    8
  21. http://wiki.freepascal.org/ web site is totally blank

    Does it only happen to me? Dennis

    Dennis, DaWorm, Unknown author
    3
  22. FReeBSD changing linker

    some changes on FreeBSD 12 and up seem to affect FPC and Lazarus, see "Tasks" list at the end of the quotation. Maybe it is of special interest to the dev team.…

    Marc Santhoff
    0
  23. from fpc 2.6 to 3.x

    which are the main changes when upgrading fpc from 2.6.4 to the current 3.x release? I remember having tried once for building ppcrossarm. That worked. When compiling my…

    Marc Santhoff, Bart
    2
  24. Using docker to build software

    Hi List. I am curious to know if there is someone out there that have tried to use Docker (https://www.docker.com) containers to build fpc applications? I have 3…

    Torsten Bonde Christiansen, leledumbo, Michalis Kamburelis
    2
  25. Error? No range checks in mode delphi?

    Is the following a bug in the compiler or a feature? Is would seem using {$mode delphi} allows code which clearly violates range bound to compile without error. program…

    Anthony Walter, Marcos Douglas B. Santos, Sven Barth
    3
  26. TStringList/pchar question

    I just learned that pchar is not ref counted like I used to think so I’m curious why this code doesn’t fail. Shouldn’t this crash because I free TStringList and…

    Ryan Joseph, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  27. ENC28J60 Ethernet Controller AVR/ARM Driver

      I started to write a driver ( https://github.com/dioannidis/fp_ethernet_enc28j60.git ) for this chip ( ENC28J60 Ethernet Controller ) first for the AVR platform, (…

    Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis
    0