[fpc-devel] Free Pascal V1.0.10

2008-09-01 Thread Michael Müller
Hi, before we will start to add QNX support to the recent version of Free Pascal we need for an old project for the developers under Windows to check that our code stays V1.0.10 compilable under QNX the Windows/ DOS version of V1.0.10. Several weeks ago I found it listed under http://www.f

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.2.2 on Linux/SPARC

2008-09-01 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Jonas Maebe wrote: On 01 Sep 2008, at 21:12, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: On SPARC I can build from scratch and tests complete. fpc appears to be OK, but fp bombs during initialisation leaving the screen in raw mode. If I redirect stdout to a file I get An unhandled exception occurred at $FFA767

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.2.2 on Linux/SPARC

2008-09-01 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 01 Sep 2008, at 21:12, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: On SPARC I can build from scratch and tests complete. fpc appears to be OK, but fp bombs during initialisation leaving the screen in raw mode. If I redirect stdout to a file I get An unhandled exception occurred at $FFA767E2 : EBusError :

[fpc-devel] FPC 2.2.2 on Linux/SPARC

2008-09-01 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
I'm trying to get up to date on various platforms- i386 (NT and Linux), SPARC and now ARM (both Linux). I've installed 2.2.2 on Windows and built from source for i386 Linux without significant problems. On SPARC I can build from scratch and tests complete. fpc appears to be OK, but fp bombs du

Re: [fpc-devel] Unicodestring branch, please test and help fixing

2008-09-01 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Marc Weustink said: > OK, then we name it objects (or records with methods) > > > Before you know it you are messing with special stringbuilder classes and > > special syntax to keep a semblance of performance. Moreover I don't really > > see what this solves. > > It solv

Re: [fpc-devel] Unicodestring branch, please test and help fixing

2008-09-01 Thread Marc Weustink
Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Ivo Steinmann said: fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel Why not creating a new kind of managed class, that is refcounted, initialized, finalized, etc... like String ty

Re: [fpc-devel] Unicodestring branch, please test and help fixing

2008-09-01 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Ivo Steinmann said: > > fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org > > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel > > > > > Why not creating a new kind of managed class, that is refcounted, > initialized, finalized, etc... like String type? I nev

Re: [fpc-devel] Unicodestring branch, please test and help fixing

2008-09-01 Thread Ivo Steinmann
Marco van de Voort schrieb: In our previous episode, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara said: And use TNativeString for encoding agnostic purposes. Well, really agnostic code should simply use "string" :) Delphi is introducing the RawByteString type, that skips the auto encoding c

Re: [fpc-devel] Unicode functions

2008-09-01 Thread David Butler
See: http://fundementals.sourceforge.net/cUnicodeChar.html The "Unicode letter table" contains upper/lower case codes. 2008/9/1 Jonas Maebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On 26 Aug 2008, at 11:28, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > On 8/26/08, Daniël Mantione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Klingon does

Re: [fpc-devel] Unicode functions

2008-09-01 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 26 Aug 2008, at 11:28, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 8/26/08, Daniël Mantione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Klingon does not have capitals, nor does any script outside the BMP. And See the character table (image)... http://www.kli.org/tlh/pIqaD.html q and Q. Klingon doesn't have a lower ca

Re: [fpc-devel] Unicodestring branch, please test and help fixing

2008-09-01 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara said: > >> > >> And use TNativeString for encoding agnostic purposes. > > > > Well, really agnostic code should simply use "string" :) > > Delphi is introducing the RawByteString type, that skips the auto > encoding conversion. I don't know wh