Re: [fpc-pascal] paszlib problem: integer overflow

2013-11-14 Thread Dennis Poon
Dennis Poon wrote: I downloaded the Paszlib-sg from http://sagsehome.net/oss/paszlib-sg.php (as suggested by Paszlib freepascal.org wiki). I works fine on my Delphi 5 until I try to compress a file with size of 70M and it raises the exception of integer flow error. Does anyone have this

[fpc-pascal] any good data compression library for Free Pascal?

2013-11-14 Thread Dennis Poon
the paszlib has bug for large file sizes so I need another one. Thanks. Dennis ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] paszlib problem: integer overflow

2013-11-14 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Dennis Poon said: Dennis Poon wrote: I downloaded the Paszlib-sg from http://sagsehome.net/oss/paszlib-sg.php (as suggested by Paszlib freepascal.org wiki). No. It doesn't suggest that. It says that code in FPC originally came from the same sources as that. But

Re: [fpc-pascal] paszlib problem: integer overflow

2013-11-14 Thread Dennis Poon
I works fine on my Delphi 5 until I try to compress a file with size of 70M and it raises the exception of integer flow error. That means you enabled that somehow. Integer under/overflow is generally not enabled by default, and it is somewhat unlogical to use it with converted C code.

Re: [fpc-pascal] paszlib problem: integer overflow

2013-11-14 Thread José Mejuto
El 14/11/2013 18:15, Dennis Poon escribió: I'd love to just use the paszlib in Lazarus/fpc but I also need the same unit for Delphi 5 (Dephi 5 program will compress data and send to linux /lazarus/fpc program ) so both sides need to understand the same compress/decompress protocol. I tried

[fpc-pascal] CompareMem documentation

2013-11-14 Thread Juha Manninen
Documentation here: http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/rtl/sysutils/comparemem.html says that the function returns 0, 0 or 0 while actually it returns a Boolean. Juha ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] CompareMem documentation

2013-11-14 Thread Vincent Snijders
2013/11/14 Juha Manninen juha.mannine...@gmail.com Documentation here: http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/rtl/sysutils/comparemem.html says that the function returns 0, 0 or 0 while actually it returns a Boolean. Those docs are outdated: see up to date docs at:

Re: [fpc-pascal] any good data compression library for Free Pascal?

2013-11-14 Thread Dmitry Boyarintsev
zlib (at zlib.pas) The only differences are: 1) it works; performance is better actually; 2) it's depends the external library to be available; thanks, Dmitry On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Dennis Poon den...@avidsoft.com.hk wrote: the paszlib has bug for large file sizes so I need another

Re: [fpc-pascal] CompareMem documentation

2013-11-14 Thread Juha Manninen
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Vincent Snijders vincent.snijd...@gmail.com wrote: Those docs are outdated: see up to date docs at: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/comparemem.html Ok, thanks. Juha ___ fpc-pascal maillist -