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fpc-pascal · 2024-06

1. Heap trace on mac still not working?

   One more thing that's getting to me today. Heap trace on macOS still seems to be broken, i.e. using -gh I only get addresses and no line numbers. Has been for years it…

   HJSHairy Pixels, Jer Haan, Sven Barth7-1-2024 15:16 UTC
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2. Sub-millisecond time measuring

   I had a large function which I was profiling with MilliSecondsBetween but I split it to be called many different times and now it's not accumulating the total time…

   HACHairy Pixels, Adriaan van Os, Christo Crause7-1-2024 11:02 UTC
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3. FPC 3.3.x breaks the Firebird Project's Firebird.pas

   This is a problem reported to me by an IBX user. I have not yet confirmed it (need to find the time to set up the latest development branch of FPC), but the issue looks…

   TBMTony Whyman, Benito van der Zander, Michael Van Canneyt6-18-2024 12:54 UTC
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4. How to use external linker on windows i386

   I am on Windows 64bit, but using the i386 compiler. I have to link a 3rd party OBJ file with {$L 'xyz.obj'}. With the internal linker I get these errors: Error: COMDAT…

   OSOndrej Pokorny, Sven Barth6-7-2024 13:42 UTC
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5. Ordinal casting to enums

   This program below crashes because the value 12 is not in the enum. I was curious though, how does it know this? Does it have to do a linear search through the enum to…

   HOHairy Pixels, Ondrej Pokorny6-6-2024 09:00 UTC
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6. Custom NewInstance allocator

   In the manual it at https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse38.html it says "Calling the constructor will provoke a call to the virtual class method NewInstance,…

   HOSHairy Pixels, Olivier Sannier, Sven Barth6-5-2024 08:26 UTC
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