On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:52:01 +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys
graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 December 2011 11:33, Henry Vermaak wrote:
I agree, quality first.
I would normally agree with that. But such huge magnitudes slower
(20ms vs 10585ms) on a new Quad-Core type system? That just seems
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:12:15 +0100, luciano de souza luchya...@gmail.com
wrote:
So I ask: Does someone know a commandline tool that indents the code
automatically?
Try 'ptop'. It comes with FPC already.
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On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:38:04 +0100, kingbiz...@gmail.com
kingbiz...@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to know if is there any way to get the time in a high
precision, something like nannoseconds.
Yes. Depending on the required resolution, the operating system, processor
architecture, and your
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:15:54 +0100, ik ido...@gmail.com wrote:
I found the following amazing lecture that present a new idea of a
development tool, that I think will interest you all:
http://vimeo.com/36579366
Impressive, indeed. And I am usually not that easily impressed.
Vinzent.
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:44:21 +0200, Jonas Maebe
jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be wrote:
Include an appropriate {$packenum xxx} directive in your source code.
There is no {$packenum c} (I'm not even sure whether the C standard says
anything about the size of enums),
Yes, it does say something
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:48:08 +0200, Krzysztof dib...@wp.pl wrote:
I just quicky googled not allowed characters and wrote this simple
function:
Seems, you found one of the many (I'd suspect) wrong search results.
function IsValidFilename(const AFilename: String): Boolean;
var
c: set of
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:42:55 +0200, Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior
jagf...@gmail.com wrote:
am i the only one seeing a security risk here ?
*scratching head* Which part? Care to elaborate?
I'd presume, you mean another than that I'm using Windows? ;)
I don't see how manually restricting the
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:42:55 +0200, Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior
jagf...@gmail.com wrote:
am i the only one seeing a security risk here ?
Now it dawns. You're thinking environment variables (%)?
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On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:53:53 +0200, Krzysztof dib...@wp.pl wrote:
I need only basic checking, it not need to be 100% compability with OS
specification. My program asking user for playlist name and I'm saving
it in local folder with my own extension.
Then for von Neumanns sake simply try to
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 11:20:53 +0200, Sven Barth
pascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 14.09.2012 17:44, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 14/09/12 13:48, Krzysztof wrote:
I just quicky googled not allowed characters and wrote this simple
function:
Also in Windows (as far as I know), file names
Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org:
If you have a better for unix this will be fine. IIRC it is not easy (if
possible after all?) to implement TMultiReadExclusiveWriteSynchronizer
for unix systems.
It's possible, yes. If it's possible in an efficient way, is another question.
Vinzent.
Graeme Geldenhuys grae...@opensoft.homeip.net:
I have a corrected TMultiReadExclusiveWriteSynchronizer implementation
(don't worry, not based on Delphi implementation) that I can donate to
FPC.
I hope it isn't based on the Delphi one. Last time I heard the Delphi
implementation suffers from
Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de:
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.
Yes, but the semantics of discriminants is slightly different than in PASCAL.
I don't know the differences to
Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com
I can't understand what you are trying to say. An array is a pointer
to where the elements of the array resides in memory.
No, not in Pascal. In Pascal an array is a variable just like any other: A name
for some memory area where values can be stored.
Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com:
One thing I think you don't understand is that an array _is_ a
pointer. Look at this table to visualise:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_syntax#Accessing_elements
One thing I think you don't understand is that arrays and pointers are
orthogonal
mar...@stack.nl:
In our previous episode, Vinzent Höfler said:
One thing I think you don't understand is that arrays and pointers are
orthogonal concepts in almost every other programming language than C.
So technically, C is the one who got it wrong.
Wrong and right are absolute
Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com:
Thanks for the explanation, I was under the impression that arrays in
Pascal were similar to C. How do you explain the automatic
dereferencing with a pointer to an array that Jürgen is talking about?
Those are dynamic arrays, IOW pointers disguised as
Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com:
2009/10/10 Vinzent Höfler jellyfish.softw...@gmx.net:
Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com:
One thing I think you don't understand is that an array _is_ a
pointer. Look at this table to visualise:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_syntax
Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com:
Please don't confuse your opinion with right and wrong.
It's not just my opinion, that arrays and pointer are different things. One
might say it's a fact.
Confusion and consistency were what this discussion was about.
Confusing code may have many
Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl:
And the criticism about introducing Cisms in FPC/Delphi is also old. In
the past I would have joined you, but after a few non-trivial header
conversions and library conversions that pretty much died out.
Yes. But that's not the fault of the C-language.
Andrew Brunner andrew.t.brun...@gmail.com:
1st benefit:
declaring methods associated with classes before TIntArray needs to be
defined or declared.
eg. procedure DoSomething(Var Data:TIntArray); vs (DataP:PIntArray);
Huh? Is there any difference other than the second one can take a NIL
mar...@stack.nl:
That simply means, the code is not documented. Again: Not entirely C's
fault.
Docs. Like anybody reads them.
Well, I do. If the coder cares to write any, that is. :)
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Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com:
You said C did it wrong, because you think that arrays and pointers
should be different things.
No, I said so, because arrays and pointers *are* different things (even in C
there are subtle differences - which should sort of prove my point).
Apart from
Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de:
And why should that be the case? What are the outstanding feature of C
that make it so supperiour? It's illogical and hard to maintain syntax?
Its Compile anything, crash everywhere. interface. :P
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Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de:
Adding yet another variant is not good. I once thought that Pascal was
superior to other languages because of it's clear and strict concept but
now there is no longer *the* Pascal language anymore.
If you're searching for some stricter Pascal
Martin laza...@mfriebe.de:
The beauty of the current solution is that static and dynamic arrays can
be substituted with each other, simple by changing the declaration, and
adding/removing a setlength. All other code can be left as it is.
No, because of subtle differences in the handling of
Andrew Brunner andrew.t.brun...@gmail.com:
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Vinzent Höfler
Read up on forward declarations. The technique of declaring a typed
pointer to any data structure in FPC and Delphi was that you can use
it in fields and methods of objects and data structures w/o
Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com:
Now I know why vendors of newer languages (Dephi, Java etc) are trying
to hide pointers from programmers. They are very tricky to work with -
and give errors without warning!
Especially when compiler and programmer are both trying to outsmart each
mar...@stack.nl:
The reason is probably more because Wirthian languages traditionally use
recursive descent parsers.
Yeah, right.
The reason is most definitely that of all those people who know the language
well enough to write the grammar, there's no one actually doing it.
Of course, with
Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de:
You can post an ad for a C
programmer and get 1,000 applicants, if you post an ad for a Pascal
programmer you might get 5, at least where I live.
Yes, and guess what: Odds are that there are more than 5 good ones out of the
1000 C-programmers
Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com:
Any programmer worth hiring should find it relatively easy to switch
to another language. Or and least become proficient in it in a
relative short period of time. The basic principles apply to all
languages, it's just the tool-chain and syntax that
Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com:
I have been programming solely in Object Pascal for the last 9 years.
I dab in Java every now and again (but not for any production
software). I also read a lot of C/C++ code which I rewrite into Object
Pascal for whatever reason. So just like me
Holger Bruns holger.br...@gmx.net:
Accessing ports is limited to ports 03ffh, more ports cannot be
released with fpioperm. This means to me, successful serial port access
on higher addresses cannot yet be implemented with fpc.
Or any other compiler, for that matter, because this is a
Von: Holger Bruns holger.br...@gmx.net:
If I intend
to use device drivers, I need to know how to access the ports of a
device, which means in my case to a serial port based on the 16550D
Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmiter with FIFOs.
No.
I need to read
and write every register
Von: Holger Bruns holger.br...@gmx.net:
I am rather clueless while dealing with device drivers like /dev/ttyS0
on linux. My question is, what do I grab while reading from a device
driver file like /dev/ttyS0?
You don't read from a device driver. You read from a device. What you read
is
Jonas Maebe jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be:
On 09 Nov 2009, at 21:03, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Vinzent Höfler wrote:
As wrong as in Don't call most system functions from within a
signal handler., maybe?
Hmm... In that case, many exceptions would not work either
Graeme Geldenhuys gra...@mastermaths.co.za:
A very quick and dirty solution would be to reimplement the public
Create() constructor and immediately raise an exception inside it,
explaining the problem. That way if any developer tries to use that
default constructor, they will get an error -
Graeme Geldenhuys gra...@mastermaths.co.za:
[FillChar]
As for the COM usage requirement (which I honestly believe is the
minority use case in FPC).
AFAIK, the different semantic of out parameters applies to all reference
counted types. That's especially unfortunate with dynamic arrays, where
Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org:
Out is not made to solve such problems but plainly to work with
COM/Corba.
Really? Well, that's not what the FPC manual says:
-- 8 --
The purpose of an out parameter is to pass values back to the calling routine:
The variable is passed by reference.
Holger Bruns holger.br...@gmx.net:
Despite queues an baud rates, you must expect data loss. You will
loss data in the physical layer. You have to implement some handshake
to prevent it. (using google translator, excuse my english).
Which can be done through a direct port access and some
mar...@stack.nl:
[Synapse/Synaser]
How do you use it? I'm used to TComport, and it seems that synaser, like
unit serial, only supports blocking use.
call Connect, call Config, call the appropriate reading and writing subroutines
(like SendString and RecvPacket)...
Do you put it in a thread?
Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org:
Vinzent Höfler schrieb:
Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org:
Out is not made to solve such problems but plainly to work with
COM/Corba.
Really? Well, that's not what the FPC manual says:
And? Is there a different reason written
Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com:
2009/11/19 Vinzent Höfler jellyfish.softw...@gmx.net:
Why don't you create your own initialization routine together with the
Because not all the code I maintain is my own. Some code, as in the
case of DCPCrypt gave stacks of hints which were all
Rainer Stratmann rainerstratm...@t-online.de:
For me a variable is initialised when it passes a procedure/function
which has a var declaration in the parameters.
-- 8 --
procedure Add_2 (var I : Integer);
begin
I := I + 2;
end;
-- 8 --
If the variable for the parameter I wasn't correctly
Martin f...@mfriebe.de:
Ideally it would be, if there was a directive or similar, to suppress it
for given lines (or statements).
one that is easier than {$push} { $HINT OFF} ... {$POP}
{$HINTS OFF}
... code ...
{$HINTS DEFAULT}
maybe? Whereas DEFAULT restores the switch to the original
Rainer Stratmann rainerstratm...@t-online.de:
Am Thursday 19 November 2009 23:16:26 schrieb Vinzent Höfler:
{$HINTS OFF}
... code ...
{$HINTS DEFAULT}
maybe? Whereas DEFAULT restores the switch to the original state.
But then you have to do it everywhere in the code instead
I fear you've simply no clue about the usage,
internals and purpose of dyn. arrays so I stop this discussion.
As you always do once someone does not share your point of view, even after you
tried so hard to convince him. :P Well, never mind.
Still, dynamic arrays are a bitch, because they
Bihar Anwar bihar_an...@rocketmail.com
Moreover, I've seen many Delphi code snippets out there (e.g.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~rkennedy/array-delete) rely on reference counting
behaviour.
Great. I once wrote code that relied on Turbo Pascal's heap list structure
internals.
Shall I post a bug
c TList wraps TFPList, which is based internally on an array. So access
c is fast; insertion, deletion not.
But it is faster than inserting elements in a dynamic array (unless
reference counted ones) because it usually moves less amount of data
(4/8 bytes per element).
Implementing a
1)
TheArray: array of ItemArray;
AnyItem: ItemOfArray;
[...]
for j:=0 to 1000 do begin
SetLength(TheArray,j+1);
TheArray[j]:=AnyItem;
end;
[...]
About 1000 GetMem operations (and 1000 assignments which aren't there in the
code below, so I won't count them).
Now here add
Saturday, May 8, 2010, 5:07:12 PM, you wrote:
JM And depending on the usage patterns and the size of the
JM elements stored in the array, it probably can be. That's all he
JM was saying, and only as a side remark in the context of the
JM discussion (which was meanly to steer away a new
Hello FPC-Pascal,
Saturday, May 8, 2010, 4:42:46 PM, you wrote:
VH So, apart from a possibly more optimized implementation (like
VH not changing the allocated memory size on each single
VH insertion/deletion) how do you come up with the idea that adding
VH another layer would make it
Von: Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de
it's just easier to follow the crowd
than fight them. :-)
In the first place it is. But if it would be available, the crowd may
change its mind.
No, she won't. She never did.
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Bihar Anwar bihar_an...@rocketmail.com
I've tried googling and searching FPC mailing list for information about
this one, but I found nothing.
I just found in http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/faq3_1.html that
DJGPP requires MS-DOS version 3.1 or later.
Would someone here tell me
Bee Jay bee.ogra...@gmail.com:
[TDateTime]
What if an app need a precise and correct result, say a rocket launcher?
:D Is there other alternative solution?
Yes. Use a time type based on a fixed point representation. This eliminates
drift and accuracy issues cause by a floating point
spir ☣ denis.s...@gmail.com:
Thank you. Using dos.getTime (including its last arg), the following
returns integer time in 10^-2s units:
[...]
This is the needed base for my uses. (A unit of 1s is too gross for
timing, this leads to endless runs; more precision than 10^-2s is
unneeded.)
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:58:54 +0200
Vinzent Höfler jellyfish.softw...@gmx.net wrote:
spir ☣ denis.s...@gmail.com:
Thank you. Using dos.getTime (including its last arg), the following
returns integer time in 10^-2s units:
[...]
This is the needed base for my uses. (A unit
The standard clock for the system timer runs at 1,193,182 Hz, derived
for the original IBM PC as the 4.77 MHz processor clock divided by 4.
Digging a bit deeper clarifies it:
http://sos.enix.org/lxr/source/hwcore/i8254.c?v=6.5
|* Ahhh PC systems are nice toys: this maximum strange frequency
Reimar Grabowski reimg...@web.de:
If you want to get better than that, you need to get system specific,
I'm afraid.
That's not true. As Graeme already mentioned there is EpikTimer which is
a cross-plattform, high-resolution timer (which btw works very well for
realtime tasks).
Well, that
spir denis.s...@gmail.com:
Theoretically speaking, I'm all for type checking; and for programming
discipline in general. But in practice I never get type errors.
Then you are either a genius or you are using not enough types. ;)
So, a few questions:
* Do you get type errors?
Occasionally,
spir denis.s...@gmail.com:
Sure, but this is just a matter of convention and support by a given
compiler:
typeIntegers = array of Integer;
var ints : Integers = [1,2,3];
could work as expected by automatically sizing, allocating and
initialising. How else could work
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:45:04 +0200, Andrew Brunner
andrew.t.brun...@gmail.com wrote:
It was also suggested that PThread's Suspend and Resume may not do
anything. What I would do (if that is the case), is try to find where
PThread has access to the Semaphore or CriticalSection it has on that
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:39:59 +0200, Andrew Brunner
andrew.t.brun...@gmail.com wrote:
BTW: I did notice that the semaphore was being used to suspend the
thread. And I also know that that was it's only function... Suspend
and Resume.
The problem is not pthreads or anything, the problem is how
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:19:14 +0200, Andrew Brunner
andrew.t.brun...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Vinzent Höfler
jellyfish.softw...@gmx.net wrote:
If you access it inside the execute method, you more or
less crash (or at least leak memory).
You obviously had a problem
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:15:51 +0200, Andrew Brunner
andrew.t.brun...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Vinzent Höfler
jellyfish.softw...@gmx.net wrote:
Exactly. It was poor implementation. You should have had a global
barrier onExecute. That would unlock the thread after
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:26:59 +0200, Andrew Brunner
andrew.t.brun...@gmail.com wrote:
Externally suspending a thread *IS* absolutely unsafe.
At least we're on the same page here. :)
But the notion of suspending an ENGINE at runtime externally is
totally expected.
The thread itself MUST put
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:13:36 +0200, Sven Barth
pascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote:
I'm curious. How should this FPThread class look like? You saw flaws in
Delphi's API so what would you do better?
Hmm. Actually, I did not think too hard about it yet.
So for a quick brainstorming approach:
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:50:29 +0200, Jonas Maebe
jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be wrote:
On 15 Oct 2010, at 22:31, Vinzent Höfler wrote:
- Suspend/Resume should be gone (you can't guarantee it to work,
so there's no point in doing it at all)
FWIW, they're deprecated since Delphi 2009, so
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:41:36 +0200, Andrew Brunner
andrew.t.brun...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you have a link to the latest version of pthreads?
You probably mean NPTL (Native Posix Threading Library).
It was my understanding that libc took over the pthreads project. I
just took up this issue
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:17:33 +0200, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl
wrote:
In our previous episode, Vinzent H?fler said:
Hmm. Actually, I did not think too hard about it yet.
So for a quick brainstorming approach:
- Suspend/Resume should be gone (you can't guarantee it to work,
so
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 10:45:49 +0200, Luca Olivetti l...@ventoso.org wrote:
Al 15/10/10 22:31, En/na Vinzent Höfler ha escrit:
- FreeOnTerminate should be gone, (meaning no way to actively call
TThread.Destroy from another thread, a thread gets destroyed
automatically when it leaves its execute
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:12:51 +0200, Jonas Maebe
jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be wrote:
On 16 Oct 2010, at 17:13, Martin Schreiber wrote:
As written before it does not crash in
tmsethread which does not inherit from FPC TThread.
You're just getting lucky in your tests.
Either that, or the
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:42:03 +0200, Luca Olivetti l...@ventoso.org wrote:
Al 16/10/10 16:57, En/na Vinzent Höfler ha escrit:
Well, the usual implementation of an externally called Destroy is
- first a call to the Terminate method
- then a WaitFor()
Nope, I avoid the WaitFor.
Nice
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:04:59 +0200, Luca Olivetti l...@ventoso.org wrote:
I use that only for threads I start at the beginning of the app and
terminate at the end, so polling isn't a big issue.
Those kind of threads are not a big issue at all. As they are running
during the whole
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:07:25 +0200, Dimitri Smits smi...@telenet.be
wrote:
on the other hand, what stops the OP from using 'with'? (multiple
levels/variables?)
with contaminates the name space. Locally scoped variables don't.
and you won't die from using another stack variable scoped at the
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:39:31 +0100, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Bo Berglund bo.bergl...@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks, that helps a lot! Are there also overloaded BEtoN functions
for floating point values?
I think that
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:02:11 +0100, Cox, Stuart TRAN:EX
stuart@gov.bc.ca wrote:
I think the easiest way to get cross-platform lockfile behaviour, is to
a) create the lockfile at the start of your program (e.g., a rewrite
followed by a close)
b) whenever you want to lock it, use
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:54:13 +0100, Helmut Hartl helmut.ha...@firmos.at
wrote:
Running the above program gives
1) C++ / FPC 64 Bit
6.3846106530
6.3846106530
2) FPC32 Bit
6.3846106530
6.3846111610
Is this explainable or wrong behaviour ?
First suspect candidate: the intermediate
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:35:42 +0100, Michael Müller
mueller_mich...@alice-dsl.net wrote:
Single has 7 significant digits.
mode style=nitpicking
Six significant digits. The seventh already is unreliable.
/mode
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On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:38:27 +0100, Michael Fuchs
freepas...@ypa-software.de wrote:
I also miss a NotImplementedException (or ENotImplemented in FPC style),
very handy for test driven development. :)
Yeah. And
type
//-- @abstract(Obvious coding error.)
Coder_Needs_Coffee = class
On Sat, 21 May 2011 13:19:35 +0200, Rainer Stratmann
rainerstratm...@t-online.de wrote:
Am Saturday 21 May 2011 12:21:54 schrieb Mattias Gaertner:
They are typical dpkg messages. This is pretty normal when installing
deb packages manually. That is not specific to Lazarus or FPC.
The problem
Daniël Mantione wrote:
Op Fri, 18 Jan 2008, schreef Vinzent Hoefler:
On Friday 18 January 2008 16:04, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Daniël Mantione wrote:
Op Fri, 18 Jan 2008, schreef Michael Van Canneyt:
To the user, it may appear as a bunch of dots. To the compiler,
it
Daniël Mantione wrote:
Op Fri, 18 Jan 2008, schreef Vinzent Höfler:
Maybe my view is skewed too much by the use of Ada where even a
function declares a record identifier. In Ada it is even possible to
do:
---
procedure Test is
X : Integer;
procedure B is
X : Integer;
begin
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
You are wrong. It does not compile, neither in delphi, nor in FPC.
D is not found, because 'A' resolves to the local a, and then the
search is stopped.
Ok, I think I got it. It's probably the same reason why in
---
procedure Foo (const A : My_Type); overload;
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
I hope this will be my last reply. Please take a look at the flash
video on the ET website.
I don't have flash, so I am bound to check out the Java example.
There he uses two editors (gvim and gedit).
With appropriate plugins/scripts, I suppose.
And for the
Florian Klaempfl wrote:
Imo that plugin discussion is pretty useless. I'am coding in at least
four different editors pascal (fp ide, joe, lazarus, ultraedit) and I
fear there is no plugin for all editors I use :)
Same here, although the editors' names are a bit different. ;)
Vinzent.
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 21/01/2008, Vinzent Höfler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, that's what I figured. What I don't get is how the editor extracts
the information _back_ from the file after the tabstop information has
been deleted (that's what it does once it gets replaced with spaces
ik wrote:
I think that the entire design of the Do_SysCall is malformed in the
way it assumes the number of parameters and also the type of them, so
as I asked before, how I can either call the syscall command without
assembler, or how I can pass an array of const (prior to that I asked
Marco van de Voort wrote:
Ahthe old goto arguinghow many beers have gone with it!
Linus is just right, since everyday the purists of the OO languages
still can't live without writing a GOTO; they just call it in another
politically correct way:
raise Exception.Create(TA-DA!)
leledumbo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jonas Maebe-2 wrote:
Because there are easy ways around it (as you mention) and the work to
implement and maintain this would probably outweigh the usefulness.
Yes, it's easy but uncomfortable and needs more typing.
Well, sure, but printing pointer
Datum: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:10:09 -0700 (PDT)
Von: Gene Buckle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: FPC-Pascal users discussions fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org
Betreff: Re: [fpc-pascal] Translate C to Pascal
How to translate this:
struct a;
er...
Closest would be:
type
record = foo
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Zitat von Roland Turcan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello Mattias,
I have also uncommented some DebugLns which are inside of code:
Compiling ./unit/ResConf.pas
Assembling resconf
An unhandled exception occurred at $00148A20 :
TOutputFilter.Execute
leledumbo wrote:
Joost van der Sluis wrote:
And there's no way the compiler can detect this.
I don't think so. The compiler understand that a procedure doesn't return a
value while a function does (i.e. trying to return a value from a procedure
causes compile error). I haven't checked how
Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:39:36 +0200
Jilani Khaldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marc Weustink wrote:
Micha Nelissen wrote:
Mattias Gärtner wrote:
How to translate this:
struct a;
Isn't this a forward declaration? So sometime later it needs to
declare 'struct a { ... };'
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Vinzent Höfler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What for? The C statement is empty, it's not a variable and not even a type.
So before translating that into an empty Pascal-record, you should rather
look at what the actually used
leledumbo wrote:
Since no one answers on message board, I'll post it here.
C struct:
typedef unsigned int u32int;
typedef struct page
{
u32int present: 1; // Page present in memory
u32int rw : 1; // Read-only if clear, readwrite if set
u32int user : 1; //
Mattias Gärtner wrote:
Zitat von Vinzent Höfler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[...]
a: record end;
Thanks. I will use that.
What for? The C statement is empty, it's not a variable and not even a
type. So before translating that into an empty Pascal-record, you should
rather look at what the
Joost van der Sluis wrote:
Ok, so I misunderstood you. You want that the compiler complains if you
don't assign the result of a function. While that can be done, I don't
think you want that.
Well, don't decide for others, please. I am a stupid programmmer, I am
making mistakes all the time,
Vincent Snijders wrote:
Vinzent Höfler schreef:
Joost van der Sluis wrote:
Ok, so I misunderstood you. You want that the compiler complains if you
don't assign the result of a function. While that can be done, I don't
think you want that.
Well, don't decide for others, please. I am a stupid
Original-Nachricht
Datum: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:02:10 -0400
Von: Jeff Wormsley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: FPC-Pascal users discussions fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org
Betreff: Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiler option to check return value ignorance
Vinzent Höfler wrote:
I just
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