Re: [fpc-pascal] Case in Record

2009-10-09 Thread Jerry
On Oct 8, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: And I don't know any other Pascal Compiler who does any checks in this direction. Do some? I don't know, but ADA reportedly does. I don't know the differences to Pascal. Does it have the same syntax for variant records? FWIW, here

[fpc-pascal] Is svn2.freepascal.org down?

2009-10-09 Thread Torsten Bonde Christiansen
I cant get in contact with the repository on svn2.freepascal.org (no ping reply either). Can someone give it a kick again... Kind regards, Torsten Bonde Christiansen. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] Is svn2.freepascal.org down?

2009-10-09 Thread Vincent Snijders
Torsten Bonde Christiansen schreef: I cant get in contact with the repository on svn2.freepascal.org (no ping reply either). The http server works, but the server does not reply to pings. Can someone give it a kick again... No need. Vincent ___

[fpc-pascal] Looking for remote working freelancer for a C++ to FPC porting project

2009-10-09 Thread Alexander Grau
Hello, We are a small company dedicated to data recovery software and are going to port over a mix of 18K C++ and some Delphi code to a cross platform (Mac+Win) data recovery tool. We are looking for a FreePascal programmer (student, freelancer, self-employed, etc.) that can assist our 2

[fpc-pascal] Re: QueueUserAPC Similar Cross platform Functionality

2009-10-09 Thread Andrew Brunner
After two days of research I've concluded that the best way to implement this for cross platform support is to go with a FiFo queue and have the individual threads transverse the list at a convenient point during the Execute method. It's gonna be CPU intensive compared to a Windows Kernel call

Re: [fpc-pascal] FIONREAD FPC FpIOCtl for Cross platform Sockets

2009-10-09 Thread Micha Nelissen
Andrew Brunner wrote: Sockets programming often requires a poll for how much data is available on a particular socket descriptor. AFAIK, it doesn't? If data is available, but less than you request, a 'read' on the socket does not block, but returns the number of bytes read, which is less

Re: [fpc-pascal] QueueUserAPC Similar Cross platform Functionality

2009-10-09 Thread David Emerson
Hi Andrew, I don't really understand your question as well as I'd like to (in particular, I don't understand the difference between a callback and any other sort of procedure; as well as other confusions) So this might be bunk advice, but here it is... Have you considered making your own

Re: [fpc-pascal] QueueUserAPC Similar Cross platform Functionality

2009-10-09 Thread Andrew Brunner
In theory that's what I'm planning to do to emulate the functionality. I'm going to create a queue using a FIFO technique and empty out the queue executing the callbacks for each item in the queue - from a manager thread. Thanks for the advice. -Andrew On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:40 AM, David