[fpc-pascal] How to translate C macro

Hi all, Could someone suggest how to translate the following code to pascal? #define prev(X) ( *( (void **) ( ((void *) (X)) - 32 ) ) ) . prev(ptr) = prev(last); I tried converting the macro to an inline function but I get the error message: Error: Argument cannot be assigned to. The

Re: [fpc-pascal] Question on type helpers

On 1/1/17, Bart wrote: > Now I need to check wether the 3.0.2 RC1 does too. > If it is inddeed r33214 that fixed it, I think it is in 3.0 fixes. > We'll see (but not today). Compiles OK with 3.0.2RC1. Bart ___ fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

On Mon, 2 Jan 2017 05:23:06 + (UTC) Mr Bee wrote: > Hi all, > There's someone accusing that Free Pascal (and some parts of Lazarus) is just > a reverse engineering of Delphi. FPC runs on 80 platforms. Delphi only runs on MS Windows 32/64 and can cross compile to a few

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

In our previous episode, Mr Bee said: > There's someone accusing that Free Pascal (and some parts of Lazarus) is just > a reverse engineering of Delphi. Even he said some codes of FPC/Laz are taken > from Delphi (and Kylix). This is a serious allegation. > I know that isn't true. Or is it? ;)

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

Am 2017-01-02 um 06:23 schrieb Mr Bee: > There's someone accusing that Free Pascal (and some parts of Lazarus) is just a reverse engineering of Delphi. Even he said some codes of FPC/Laz are taken from Delphi (and Kylix). This is a serious allegation. > I know that isn't true. Or is it? ;) >

Re: [fpc-pascal] Question on type helpers

Am 01.01.2017 17:52 schrieb "Bart" : > > On 1/1/17, Sven Barth wrote: > > > Could indeed be the case due to codepaged strings being different types. > > I think there already is a bug report along those lines... > > I just (for the first time

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

El 02/01/2017 a las 6:23, Mr Bee escribió: > Hi all, > > There's someone accusing that Free Pascal (and some parts of Lazarus) > is just a reverse engineering of Delphi. Even he said some codes of > FPC/Laz are taken from Delphi (and Kylix). This is a serious allegation. > > I know that isn't

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

Hi, On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, Santiago A. wrote: > Well, I think it's evident  that Freepascal and lazarus tries to be > delphi compatible, and that means that must look close to delphi to > imitate it's behavior and syntax. > > Is that reverse engineering? Well, I'm not a lawyer, I don't know where >

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, Mr Bee wrote: Hi all, There's someone accusing that Free Pascal (and some parts of Lazarus) is just a reverse engineering of Delphi. Even he said some codes of FPC/Laz are taken from Delphi (and Kylix). This is a serious allegation. I know that isn't true. Or is it? ;) Can

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

My question is why does this person even care to make such accusations? For one some of the routines in the run time are extremely generic and could easily be written exactly the same way and only way to prove it is if comments made by original coder are still in place. Sounds like a waste of

Re: [fpc-pascal] Question on type helpers

On 1/2/17, Sven Barth wrote: > I knew that the problem sounded familiar ;) Even better, I opened that ticket, allbeit on behalve of someone else in the forum (Silvio). >> PS How can I get the "make install" to generate a fpc.cfg file? > > I think we have a

Re: [fpc-pascal] Question on type helpers

Am 02.01.2017 15:26 schrieb "Bart" : > >> PS How can I get the "make install" to generate a fpc.cfg file? > > > > I think we have a generator for it in utils or so. I've never used it > > however... > > I just copied the 3.0 config and did a search and replace on the paths.

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

Am 02.01.2017 19:15 schrieb "Santiago A." : > Nevertheless, as someone has pointed, Embarcadero hasn't make any legal movement. Maybe because it thinks there is no legal base; or maybe because it doesn't care that much and thinks it's not worth the bad publicity. Not to

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

Maybe it's Niklaus Wirth, could be he's broke and decided it's time to collect license fees like Microsoft does with Android LOL just kidding. On Jan 2, 2017 4:07 PM, "Sven Barth" wrote: Am 02.01.2017 19:15 schrieb "Santiago A." : >

[fpc-pascal] questions on fpimage

Hi, firstly a happy new year to you all and keep on rocking! While reading the fpimage unit code I found some pieces I don't understand and could not clear up reading the docs. Here we go: TFPCustomImage = class(TPersistent) [...] public [...] property Extra [const key:string] :