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  1. Smartcard & Pascal

    I'm gathering information for a possible project using a smartcard. I would like to have it running on linux, so I will be using pcsc-lite. In september 2010 there was a…

    Koenraad Lelong
    0
  2. Assembler file generate by compiler

    Does the compiler generates (an) assembler file(s)? I did not find here: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/prog.html

    Rainer Stratmann, Jonas Maebe, leledumbo
    14
  3. FPC trunk seems to crash compiling Lazreport; was: Re: Lazreport compilation problems with FPC trunk

    Thread from Lazarus list... Perhaps some kind FPC dev could look at bug 2252 if this is an FPC trunk bug connected with generating stabs debug info instead of a…

    Reinier Olislagers, Jonas Maebe, Ludo Brands
    8
  4. FPC vs Delphi's unicode string support questions

    In the tiOPF project the v3 branch is a Delphi Unicode String enabled version of tiOPF, thus it only supports Delphi 2009/2010 and newer. A while back I had some…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe, Jürgen Hestermann
    19
  5. GDB 7.4 & FP IDE

    I would like to build FP IDE with debugger support, it's been a long time since I did it (and it was on windows). I've built GDB plainly (simply ./configure), and I have…

    leledumbo
    1
  6. rawbytestring

    In past unicode discussions, rawbytestring was offered as a solution to mixing utf8 and unicodestring (utf16). I got the impression that rawbytestring was a kind of open…

    Marco van de Voort, Jonas Maebe
    1
  7. Resourcestring and multi-line text

    When putting text into a resourcestring, for example for i18n, what is best practice for multiline blocks? I'm thinking of, for example, explanatory text that goes on a…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Marco van de Voort
    2
  8. Interbase vs Firebird header translation

    I started a new message thread, as it doesn't really relate to the origin thread any more. Yeah, the unit naming scheme is a bit dodgy at the moment. At one point in…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, LacaK, Reinier Olislagers
    3
  9. linux: should we hard-code versioned or unversioned shared libraries in our apps?

    This issue has come up before in a fcl-db discussion regarding the Firebird Database, where the libfbclient.so was missing from many Linux distros (eg: Ubuntu 10.04),…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Henry Vermaak, Jonas Maebe
    100
  10. Get all caller adresses of a given function/procedure before executing

    The code below finds all caller adresses in a program to a known procedure/function adress. With this I can get all caller adresses to the translate function. Moreover -…

    Rainer Stratmann, Jonas Maebe, Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior
    73
  11. Don't understand Zipper.DoEndOfFile/UnZipper.DoEndOfFile

    I've been working on documenting the Zipper/Unzipper classes: packages\paszlib\src\zipper.pp Now looking at the protected procedure TZipper/TUnzipper.DoEndOfFile They…

    Reinier Olislagers, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  12. fpdoc executable both in bin and utils\fpdoc - but not fpdoc.css

    In my (Windows) SVN fpc installs, I can find the fpdoc executable both under the bin directory as well as utils\fpdoc However, I've only found fpdoc.css in utils\fpdoc…

    Reinier Olislagers, Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe
    37
  13. Makeskel generation question

    I've run makeskel on ibconnection.pp. This declaration: protected ... function GetHandle : pointer; override; gets output as: <!-- function Visibility: protected -->…

    Reinier Olislagers, Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    7
  14. WeekDay outdated?

    I am not able to use this function: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/dos/weekday.html nor can I find it in the sources. Does it still exist? If yes, how to use…

    Jürgen Hestermann, Daniel Gaspary, Howard Page-Clark
    9
  15. fpc no longer links

    Since yesterday fpc no longer links some programs, e.g. lazarus. It reports no error: Assembling (pipe) ../units/i386-darwin/carbon/lazarus.s Compiling resource…

    Mattias Gaertner, Jonas Maebe
    4
  16. Label

    Is it possible to get the adress of a label in a procedure? label mark1; procedure s; begin mark1: end; var p : pointer; begin p := @mark1; // does not work; end;

    Rainer Stratmann, Jonas Maebe, Sven Barth
    11
  17. Inline bytes

    How is it possible to put some inline bytes in the code like the former inline( $1f , $ef , $1A ); instruction?

    Rainer Stratmann, Henry Vermaak, Jonas Maebe
    11
  18. Get all caller adresses of a procedure/function

    procedure p1; begin ... end; How to get all caller adresses of p1 in a program before p1 is executed? For example p1 is called from 20 different places in a program.…

    Rainer Stratmann, Aleksa Todorovic, Howard Page-Clark
    31
  19. /docs-html/rtl/system/get_caller_addr.html

    There is a typo in this documentation. The Description field refers to get_caller_frame when get_caller_addr is surely meant. Howard

    Howard Page-Clark
    0
  20. Compiling on Raspberry Pi

    I recently recieved my Raspberry PI. That's an arm-linux device. I downloaded the easyfpgui-package from http://www.turbocontrol.com/easyfpgui.htm. I can't compile the…

    Koenraad Lelong, Graeme Geldenhuys, Mattias Gaertner
    3
  21. How to find a graphic element in the form editor?

    When I want to add a graphic element like TFileNameEdit which I have already used in other programs in the form editor I don't know how to find it in the menu. I am…

    Jürgen Hestermann, Graeme Geldenhuys, Howard Page-Clark
    4
  22. class of a class function

    How can I get the actual class a class function is called in? TSomething = class class function GetMyClass: TClass; end; TOtherthing = class(TSomething) end; ... class…

    CA Gorski, Jonas Maebe
    4
  23. virtual class var?

    Hi, is it possible to have a virtual class variable? I want to have a pointer available per class that can be a different value. Something like this: TA = class class…

    Andrew Haines, Paul Ishenin
    5
  24. printing each Friday the 13 using Pascal

    A friend of mine started a hobby project: Printing every Friday the 13, in a range of 5…

    ik, Gerhard Scholz, Howard Page-Clark
    4
  25. Problem compiling

    I get: text.inc(199,34) Error: Illegal type conversion: "Text" to "TextRec" after updating the compiler sources from SVN. Free Pascal Compiler version 2.7.1 [2012/05/22]…

    Unknown author, Jonas Maebe, Marco van de Voort
    3
  26. Translating from error numbers to symbolic name

    When using a function like fpAccept on a non-blocking socket, in some cases -1 is returned with a documented (Linux kernel) error code of EAGAIN. Should I be looking for…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Marco van de Voort, waldo kitty
    4
  27. Initialization of class field

    I'm reading about variable initialization (http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse22.html) . Can I initialize class field too? Like in Java: type TMyClass = class…

    Krzysztof, Bart, leledumbo
    7
  28. strlen and nil

    What does strlen return on nil? The FPC function strlen is implemented via FPC_PCHAR_LENGTH. The documentation does not say what happens when passing nil. Mattias

    Mattias Gaertner, Marco van de Voort, Unknown author
    3
  29. Byte ordering in IP4 and IP6 addresses

    If preparing an address returned by fpgetpeername() for display or logging, should I be using HostAddrToStr() or NetAddrToStr()? Is anybody aware that HostAddrToStr()…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd
    0
  30. [OT] GPL Lisence help

    first let me express my apologies for the off topic question. I'm having trouble to choose the correct gpl lisence for a new open source project that i'm starting. I…

    Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis, Attila Kinali, Daniel Gaspary
    7

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