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  1. Generic constants with generic type

    Hi all! With the existing syntax of constants, it is good to pass array boundaries, but bad to initial parameter values. What do you think about such constructs:…

    Andrey Zubarev, Sven Barth
    3
  2. How does TFPGMap key compare work?

    I have a question I was just curious about. From what I can tell TFPGMap uses CompareByte to compare keys of arbitrary type, which is clever but how does this work for…

    Ryan Joseph, Sven Barth
    3
  3. Separate release cycle for RTL and compiler proposal

    I would like to propose to separate RTL release   from compiler release so that RTL bug fixes and features can be released with shorter release cycle. Is that possible?

    Zamrony P. Juhara, Florian Klämpfl, Jonas Maebe
    14
  4. Abstract classes ignored

    From the documentation: "An abstract class is a class that cannot be instantiated directly. Instead, a descendent class must always be instantiated. However, for Delphi…

    Ryan Joseph, Bart, C Western
    15
  5. Background info on Generics in FPC

    Hi I'm looking at the wiki and official FPC language documentation. What was the reason for the decision to make the FPC syntax so verbose regarding Generics? eg: What…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Florian Klämpfl, Ryan Joseph
    4
  6. Documentation patch for fcl/netdb

    I've added a documentation patch to bug 0037906 in the bug tracker. This covers the new code that I added to fcl/netdb for DNS resolution as well most of the other…

    Noel Duffy, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  7. Generic class aliases

    With normal classes you can make aliases to other units but with generics you get an error. Am I doing this wrong or is this not supported? type TList = UOther.TList; …

    Ryan Joseph, Sven Barth
    1
  8. More problems in Sinclair QL port (M68K)

    I've been working on the Sinclair QL version of the FPC runtimes and I've got quite a lot of progress made. Unfortunately, I've hit a problem with the Append() function.…

    Norman Dunbar, Pierre Muller
    3
  9. Inline assembler m32 source operand

    how can I address m32 source operand in inline assembler instruction like : asm   ...   VBROADCASTSS m32, %xmm1;   ... end; if I would like broadcast to %xmm10 single…

    LacaK
    0
  10. Version 3.2.2 changes

    Does anyone have a link to useful list of changes or bug fixes for 3.2.2? Both the "New features" & "User Changes" pages are currently rather sparse!…

    Peter, Florian Klämpfl, Jonas Maebe
    5
  11. Interruption handling on i8086

    I'm doing DOS development for fun and, after installing the compiler (was quite hard), I'm having problems handling interrupts. I started with keyboard and it doesn't…

    Guillermo, Christo Crause, Marco Borsari
    8
  12. lazarus ide space/dot display

    does anyone knows how avoid display dot point for space between 2 words? Thanks in advance

    jean-françois Jouvet, Martin Frb
    1
  13. Minimal size of compiled library (DLL under Windows)

    LacaK, Jonas Maebe, Marco van de Voort
    6
  14. Trouble integrating examples into fpcdoc

    In the fpcdocs subversion project, there are a number of example directories each containing one or more small programs and a Makefile. My question is, is that Makefile…

    Noel Duffy, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  15. Usage of FieldAddress

    I'm trying to see fields by name but TObject.FieldAddress doesn't seem to be working. Do I have that correct I should be using FieldAddress to return the pointer of the…

    Ryan Joseph, Sven Barth
    7
  16. Pascal Ardiono (avr) library

    During some spare free time I've ported parts of the Arduino AVR library to Free Pascal. So now it is possible to use things like 'DigitalWrite' and 'Delay'. More info…

    Joost van der Sluis, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis, Florian Klämpfl
    11
  17. Formatting Question

    I'm looking for a way to format numerical data in a string so that everything ends up aligned by the decimal point. I've been trying to use the Format() function but I…

    James Richters, Jean SUZINEAU, Travis Siegel
    6
  18. FPC PasCocoa/Differences

    The FPC PasCocoa/Differences wiki <https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/FPC_PasCocoa/Differences> writes about ObjC class extensions: "You can use regular (non-external)…

    Adriaan van Os, Jonas Maebe
    2
  19. Hide warning number

    Is there a way to hide a warning for all files from the command line? The "not inlined" warnings (6058) are too numerous to even be useful anymore so I'd like to disable…

    Ryan Joseph, Bart, Marco van de Voort
    2
  20. Pass type as function parameter

    Would it be possible in FPC to pass a type of a variable as a parameter to a function? e.g. MyFunction(integer); I have legacy C code that does this via a macro.…

    Darius Blaszyk, Marco van de Voort, Michael Van Canneyt
    3
  21. RaspberryPi GPIO access from multiple applications using /dev/gpiomem?

    I have a control application that uses GPIO pins to switch ON/OFF power feed to a data collection system and to start it using a trigger pulse. Now I am trying to…

    Bo Berglund
    1
  22. SinclairQL (M68K) Port

    Back in November, we had a visit on our Sinclair QL forum (qlforum.co.uk) from ChainQ informing us that he had created a Sinclair QL version of Free Pascal for M68K.…

    Norman Dunbar, Karoly Balogh, Tomas Hajny
    6
  23. fpreport: can not use two ObjectLists as datasource in one report

    I have a sample attached to show the problem. I want in the report (created a runtime) to use more than one report datasource. I create a databand and connect this with a

    Andreas Frieß, Bart, Michael Van Canneyt
    13
  24. Pull request for fphttpclient.pp in git mirror repo

    I just received a notification that somebody created a pull request for FPC in my git mirror repository. I will notify the person that it's a read-only repository, but…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Martin Frb, Michael Van Canneyt
    3
  25. Extraneous generic parameters

    This program compiles, but is it a bug? I would think the specialization should fail because "S" in TArray is not specified. ======================== {$mode objfpc} type…

    Ryan Joseph, Sven Barth
    3
  26. JSONStringToString question

    Function result Pascal string with escaped characters replaced {$mode objfpc} {$h+} uses fpjson; var S1, S2: TJSONStringType; begin repeat write('S: ');readln(S2); S1 :=…

    Bart, Michael Van Canneyt, Sven Barth
    10
  27. Smart-linking versus Whole Program Optimization

    my goal is DO NOT include unused procedures, methods in final program/library on Win32 target exe/dll. A.) I compile my (units) program/library with -CX -XX (set in…

    LacaK, Jonas Maebe, Karoly Balogh
    12
  28. Cannot write datetime field on sqlite3 database on ARM

    I am developing my app on Windows and building apps for other platforms by using cross compiler. Now I have a problem only occurred on Linux ARM. The problem is that it…

    Toru Takubo, Cappelletto Gabriele, Florian Klämpfl
    15
  29. Is RV32I instruction set for RISC-V (embedded) supported?

    I would like to use fpc to program a FPGA softcore RISC-V cpu. The softcore has the RV32I instruction set implemented. I modified the Makefile in rtl/embedded, so that…

    Bernd Mueller, Florian Klämpfl
    5
  30. Unicode chars losing information

    I came across a bug which was caused but a unicode character losing information and narrowed it down to this. Why doesn't the chars[1] print the same character as…

    Ryan Joseph, Adriaan van Os, Bart
    37

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