Re: [fpc-devel] I've asked this before, but perhaps I wasn't specific enough that time: what do ...

2021-12-19 Thread Nikolai Zhubr via fpc-devel
Hi! 19.12.2021 19:28, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel: To throw my hat into the ring, I'd be willing to help out with developing some library routines. I did experiment once with using a truncated and factorised MacLaurin series to calculate Double-precision sin and cos simultaneously in

Re: [fpc-devel] I've asked this before, but perhaps I wasn't specific enough that time: what do ...

2021-12-19 Thread Nikolai Zhubr via fpc-devel
Hi! 19.12.2021 12:33, Florian Klämpfl via fpc-devel: And the main obstacle for 80 bit softfloat support are the library routines (log, exp etc.). Just out of curiosity, couldn't bochs' x87 fpu implementation be of some use here? It is approx 12k of C code and it is LGPL. Supposedly it is not

Re: [fpc-devel] Building trunk of today fails on Windows: Error: Invalid DLL C:\WINDOWS\system32\common.dll, invalid header size

2021-08-22 Thread Nikolai Zhubr via fpc-devel
Hi, 23.08.2021 0:46, Bart via fpc-devel: I have now finally resorted to that. Wrote a simple program to do that for me (no sed on windows). Just in case: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm Regards, Nikolai Then adjusted my build script to run that program, build fpc, then

Re: [fpc-devel] (ref types / circles) Re: Defer keyword

2021-05-06 Thread Nikolai Zhubr via fpc-devel
Hi Martin, 07.05.2021 2:41, Martin Frb via fpc-devel: On 07/05/2021 01:36, Nikolai Zhubr via fpc-devel wrote: Indeed. However, unfortunately classes are substantially different in that they can cause reference circles, You can already cause ref circles, no classes needed. Yes, records

Re: [fpc-devel] Defer keyword

2021-05-06 Thread Nikolai Zhubr via fpc-devel
Hi, 07.05.2021 1:32, Ryan Joseph via fpc-devel: [...] it's kind of frustrating that we have ref counted types but that isn't extended to classes. Indeed. However, unfortunately classes are substantially different in that they can cause reference circles, which then cause damage to ref

Re: [fpc-devel] Compiler message colour scheme

2020-11-25 Thread Nikolai Zhubr via fpc-devel
Hi! 25.11.2020 1:52, Tomas Hajny via fpc-devel: On 2020-11-24 19:17, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote: Sorry for being a bit slow - I've been doing my own work on x86. I gave your patch (and new file) a test run on x86_64-win64, and that seems to work fine. At least the warning messages

Re: [fpc-devel] Minor heads-up

2020-08-09 Thread Nikolai Zhubr via fpc-devel
Hi, 09.08.2020 20:03, J. Gareth Moreton: Hmmm, that's a good idea! Silly question... what does OSS mean?! Open-Source Software, presumbly? :) Regards, Nikolai Gareth aka. Kit ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-devel] reference/pointer to class function/constructor ?

2020-02-21 Thread Nikolai Zhubr via fpc-devel
Hi, 20.02.2020 10:21, Harald Houppermans via fpc-devel: [...] Now I need a type to the initialize function which is a class function, I simply tried: type Tinitializer = class function; // this don't work in Delphi I also tried: Tinitializer = ^class function; // this don't work in Delphi.

Re: [fpc-devel] Linux Binary - Socket Output affected by SystemCtl, HELP!

2020-01-29 Thread Nikolai Zhubr via fpc-devel
Hi! 29.01.2020 19:04, Ozz Nixon via fpc-devel: cat /etc/test.txt ls -alrt /etc/test.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 29 10:54 /tmp/test.txt Make sure there is no naming confusion (such as e.g. /tmp/test.txt and /etc/test.txt unintentionally intermixed) Another point is that a binary

Re: [fpc-devel] Linux Binary - Socket Output affected by SystemCtl, HELP!

2020-01-29 Thread Nikolai Zhubr via fpc-devel
Hi! 29.01.2020 18:07, Ozz Nixon via fpc-devel: 1. My code does not directly interact with any environment variables. Ok. ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/coderunner2 I'd suggest, as a quick and horrible temporary hack/test, replace this direct binary call with a shell wrapper, lets name it e.g.

Re: [fpc-devel] inline... and philosophy

2019-11-08 Thread Nikolai Zhubr via fpc-devel
08.11.2019 16:28, J. Gareth Moreton: [...] No gain? Wow, is whole-program optimisation that underperforming? Given the bloated size of FPC's binaries compared to, say, what a mainstream C++ compiler than do, I would have thought that there could be a lot Keep in mind that pretty much any tiny