Re: [fpc-devel] Some Dataset and Variants patches

2005-09-19 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Any reason to re-implement the tempbuffer? Or were you just using an older version? Please give me more datails (history) about tempbuffer. Well, it was an empty procedure. But no-one had a clue where it was used for. Probably it had something to do with some very old fpc-TDataset-

Re: [fpc-devel] Some Dataset and Variants patches

2005-09-19 Thread Joost van der Sluis
It seems that there are many delphi compatible components left that use tempbuffer. I have myself reintroduced this function instantly, becouse it is used in filtering/searching operations by my dataset component. Since this function exists in delphi and it is used by some components, i see

Re: [fpc-devel] Some Dataset and Variants patches

2005-09-19 Thread Alexandrov Alexandru
On 9/19/05, Joost van der Sluis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that there are many delphi compatible components left that use tempbuffer. I have myself reintroduced this function instantly, becouse it is used in filtering/searching operations by my dataset component. Since this

[fpc-devel] Sets and delphi compatibility

2005-09-19 Thread petr . kristan
Hi. I found, that this code does not work like in Delphii (-Sd). var v: variant; begin v := 'hi'; writeln(VarType(v)); writeln(varEmpty); writeln(varNull); if VarType(v) in [varEmpty, varNull] then writeln('NULL') else writeln(v); end. FPC output: 256 0 1 NULL DCC

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC and valgrind

2005-09-19 Thread Colin Western
I thought the following message on the valgrind users list might be of interest - it is in response to a message I posted. (The reply came months after the original, so I didn't notice it immediately). I do not know how to respond to the question at the end. The first patch at least seems to