Re: [fpc-devel] Is target mips-embedded possible / planned?

2013-05-16 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05/15/2013 12:11 PM, Michael Ring wrote: If you find the time to find out how to actually start up use their gdbserver I will be more than happy to integrate it into lazarus, right now I take what I can get and that seems to be openocd. Maybe this helps

Re: [fpc-devel] Is target mips-embedded possible / planned?

2013-05-16 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05/15/2013 11:48 PM, Michel Catudal wrote: As I mentioned earlier, I have enough information from Microchip to make a fast programmer. What I will need to add is debugging. I would rather use PickIT or ICD3 than build my own hardware (in fact this would help those PIC users that can't do

Re: [fpc-devel] Is target mips-embedded possible / planned?

2013-05-16 Thread Michael Ring
Nice find, question is why did I not find this link ;-) I etched some testboards yesterday and connected them to my ARM-USB-TINY, openocd detects the chip just fine but Michel was right, flash read performance is a mess, it took two minutes to read out the 32k flash of my pic32mx220 chip,

Re: [fpc-devel] Is target mips-embedded possible / planned?

2013-05-16 Thread Michael Ring
I read some threads a frew days ago that openocd already works on Raspberry Pi over gpio, this might be just what you need if I understand you correctly. Fortunately I have still one Pi left @home to also try this.. http://code.google.com/p/picnc/wiki/OpenOCD_PIC32_Programmer and

Re: [fpc-devel] Is target mips-embedded possible / planned?

2013-05-16 Thread Sven Barth
Am 15.05.2013 23:35, schrieb Michel Catudal: When I used the fpcbuild.zip snapshot it would crash when starting to compile the RTL, much like it does for my AVR32 pascal compiler. On the other hand when I use the fpc.zip snapshot it compiles beautifully and lazarus works great. I did have to

[fpc-devel] Delphi language changes in iOS compiler

2013-05-16 Thread Sven Barth
Hello together! I've just found the following blog article by the mORMot developer which links to an article by Marco Cantu about language changes introduced in the new iOS compiler and further upcoming changes. Blog article:

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi language changes in iOS compiler

2013-05-16 Thread Michael Schnell
While all this seems to turn out as a major mess, I would like to see $ZEROBASEDSTRINGS in fpc, as well. -Michael ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi language changes in iOS compiler

2013-05-16 Thread Sven Barth
Am 16.05.2013 11:44, schrieb Michael Schnell: While all this seems to turn out as a major mess, I would like to see $ZEROBASEDSTRINGS in fpc, as well. Was already added by Florian in November (revision 22933) Regards, Sven ___ fpc-devel maillist -

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi language changes in iOS compiler

2013-05-16 Thread Sven Barth
Am 16.05.2013 12:32, schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich: Michael Schnell schrieb: While all this seems to turn out as a major mess, I would like to see $ZEROBASEDSTRINGS in fpc, as well. In fact we should provide as many FPC/Lazarus versions *as* new Delphi versions introduce breaking changes.

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi language changes in iOS compiler

2013-05-16 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05/16/2013 12:32 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: . Some of the changes (from Ansi to Unicode, from VCL to FM, from one- to zero-based strings...) require different RTL/FCL/LCL versions, which cannot be covered in a single FPC/Lazarus version. I did not expect that after Delphi introduced

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Delphi language changes in iOS compiler

2013-05-16 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: Especially the points about (currently) different features for different compilers and again ignored backwards compatibility annoy the hell out of me... And somehow I have the feeling that we should discuss the topic of Delphi compatibility on

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi language changes in iOS compiler

2013-05-16 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05/16/2013 12:34 PM, Sven Barth wrote: Was already added by Florian in November (revision 22933) Great ! He seems to be a very skilled prophet :-) -Michael ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-devel] issue with trunk and dyn array

2013-05-16 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 16 May 2013, at 17:43, Martin wrote: using rev 24475 the below fails. It works using 2.6.0 Afaik it should work? dynamic types (such as TDynIntArray ) should be initialized? Yes. The RTTI for that type seems to be completely messed up in current trunk. Probably caused by r24458.

Re: [fpc-devel] issue with trunk and dyn array

2013-05-16 Thread Martin
On 16/05/2013 17:24, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 16 May 2013, at 17:43, Martin wrote: using rev 24475 the below fails. It works using 2.6.0 Afaik it should work? dynamic types (such as TDynIntArray ) should be initialized? Yes. The RTTI for that type seems to be completely messed up in current

Re: [fpc-devel] Is target mips-embedded possible / planned?

2013-05-16 Thread Michael Ring
I finished first tests on memory read performance fot jtag probes/pic32, all on my Mac except the raspberry test: Olimex TINY-H with openocd:120 Seconds for 32k of data Olimex TINY-H with ejtagproxy: 10 Seconds for 1k of data, I did not have the patience to wait for the transfer of 32k ;-)

Re: [fpc-devel] Is target mips-embedded possible / planned?

2013-05-16 Thread Paul Breneman
Michael Ring wrote: I finished first tests on memory read performance fot jtag probes/pic32, all on my Mac except the raspberry test: Olimex TINY-H with openocd:120 Seconds for 32k of data Olimex TINY-H with ejtagproxy: 10 Seconds for 1k of data, I did not have the patience to wait for

Re: [fpc-devel] Is target mips-embedded possible / planned?

2013-05-16 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2013-05-16 04:39, Sven Barth a écrit : Am 15.05.2013 23:35, schrieb Michel Catudal: When I used the fpcbuild.zip snapshot it would crash when starting to compile the RTL, much like it does for my AVR32 pascal compiler. On the other hand when I use the fpc.zip snapshot it compiles

Re: [fpc-devel] Is target mips-embedded possible / planned?

2013-05-16 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2013-05-16 03:19, Michael Schnell a écrit : On 05/15/2013 11:48 PM, Michel Catudal wrote: As I mentioned earlier, I have enough information from Microchip to make a fast programmer. What I will need to add is debugging. I would rather use PickIT or ICD3 than build my own hardware (in

Re: [fpc-devel] Is target mips-embedded possible / planned?

2013-05-16 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2013-05-16 02:53, Michael Schnell a crit: On 05/15/2013 12:11 PM, Michael Ring wrote: If you find the time to find out how to actually start up use their gdbserver I will be more than happy to integrate it into

Re: [fpc-devel] issue with trunk and dyn array

2013-05-16 Thread Paul Ishenin
17.05.2013 0:24, Jonas Maebe пишет: On 16 May 2013, at 17:43, Martin wrote: using rev 24475 the below fails. It works using 2.6.0 Afaik it should work? dynamic types (such as TDynIntArray ) should be initialized? Yes. The RTTI for that type seems to be completely messed up in current

Re: [fpc-devel] issue with trunk and dyn array

2013-05-16 Thread Paul Ishenin
17.05.2013 8:59, Paul Ishenin пишет: Yes. The RTTI for that type seems to be completely messed up in current trunk. Probably caused by r24458. Dynamic arrays were not touched by this revision. I only changed RTTI for non-dynamic array types. Heh. But in the Martic example was array[...] of