[fpc-pascal] fpGUI and fpGFX has a newsgroup sever

2006-10-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I have setup two newsgroups for fpGUI and fpGFX on my server. For those stuck behind a company firewall, there is web access to the newsgroups as well. Newsgroups: fpgui.development fpgui.support Visit: http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ for details on the connection settings or web

[fpc-pascal] typed constants...

2006-10-23 Thread David Mears
is this bit of syntactic weirdness a fpc element, or from delphi. I've largely been away from pascal since the early 90s, mostly only using it to write dos-y non-object-y utilities, for which it excels. typed constants seem to basically to be like the static keyword from c.. but not a var

Re: [fpc-pascal] typed constants...

2006-10-23 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, David Mears wrote: is this bit of syntactic weirdness a fpc element, or from delphi. I've largely been away from pascal since the early 90s, mostly only using it to write dos-y non-object-y utilities, for which it excels. typed constants seem to basically to be like

Re: [fpc-pascal] typed constants...

2006-10-23 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 23 Oct 2006, at 19:30, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Real constants (in the sense of 'not changing') do not need to be typed in the first place so Const A = 'Some String'; Will do just fine. You can also give them a type by simply adding a typecast around the value. This can be

Re: [fpc-pascal] typed constants...

2006-10-23 Thread Micha Nelissen
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Initialized constants are deprecated, and should be replaced by initialized variables, as in Delphi: They are? Why? They have the practical advantage of being able to share them with other instances of this process. At least, if compiler+linker cooperate to put them

[fpc-pascal] fpc arm big endian help

2006-10-23 Thread Terry Kemp
Hi all I'm working on some code for the NSLU2 'slug'. How do I get ppcarm to compile in big endian mode? I have done it once before but I've lost the magic wand somewhere. Do I need to build from source as in a post I saw on devel list... change system_arm_linux_info.endian to endian_big in

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc arm big endian help

2006-10-23 Thread Matt Emson
- Original Message - From: Terry Kemp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 11:14 PM Subject: [fpc-pascal] fpc arm big endian help Hi all I'm working on some code for the NSLU2 'slug'. How do I get ppcarm to compile in big endian mode?

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc arm big endian help

2006-10-23 Thread Matt Emson
Ooops.. this time with a reply.. prt0.o is a bit of assembler IIRC... is it compiled for bigendian? That looks to be your issue. Part of the RTL is in little endian format and needs to be recompiled. ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

Re: [fpc-pascal] typed constants...

2006-10-23 Thread David Mears
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, David Mears wrote: is this bit of syntactic weirdness a fpc element, or from delphi. I've largely been away from pascal since the early 90s, mostly only using it to write dos-y non-object-y utilities, for which it excels. typed constants

[fpc-pascal] fpc arm crossbuild error

2006-10-23 Thread Terry Kemp
I have removed the FC5 rpm versions of fpc and installed the source and x86_64 binary so everything is the same... # fpc Free Pascal Compiler version 2.0.4 [2006/08/20] for x86_64 invocation is... # make clean CPU_TARGET=arm CROSSINSTALL=1 # make crossall CPU_TARGET=arm OS_TARGET=linux I am