Re: [fpc-pascal] Error: Identifier not found "Heap Error"

2016-10-18 Thread Luiz Gonzaga de Oliveira Neto 
Thank you all for the help!

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:51 AM Jonas Maebe 
wrote:

> Luiz Gonzaga de Oliveira Neto wrote:
> > Would be it be better to try to compile this with the Turbo Pascal
> > compiler then? Or do you think it would be easier to try to remove the
> > lines with these codes and continue with FPC? My fear is that in some of
> > these modifications I change what the code was supposed to do.
>
> As the link that Bart posted explains
> (http://putka.upm.si/langref/turboPascal/0683.html ), HeapError is a
> pointer to a function that would be called when you're out of memory.
> That happened quite regularly if all you had was 640KB, but it is
> extremely unlikely to happen if you are running that same program on the
> same inputs on a 32 or even 64 bit platform.
>
> If that would happen anyway, then by default FPC will terminate your
> program with a Run-time error 204. You can then still look at what the
> original program did if it ran out of memory and try to do the same in a
> more preventative way, if it did not simply use that HeapError function
> pointer to print a (more user-friendly) error message and terminate as
> well.
>
>
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Re: [fpc-pascal] Error: Identifier not found "Heap Error"

2016-10-17 Thread Jonas Maebe 
Luiz Gonzaga de Oliveira Neto wrote:
> Would be it be better to try to compile this with the Turbo Pascal
> compiler then? Or do you think it would be easier to try to remove the
> lines with these codes and continue with FPC? My fear is that in some of
> these modifications I change what the code was supposed to do.

As the link that Bart posted explains
(http://putka.upm.si/langref/turboPascal/0683.html ), HeapError is a
pointer to a function that would be called when you're out of memory.
That happened quite regularly if all you had was 640KB, but it is
extremely unlikely to happen if you are running that same program on the
same inputs on a 32 or even 64 bit platform.

If that would happen anyway, then by default FPC will terminate your
program with a Run-time error 204. You can then still look at what the
original program did if it ran out of memory and try to do the same in a
more preventative way, if it did not simply use that HeapError function
pointer to print a (more user-friendly) error message and terminate as well.


Jonas
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Re: [fpc-pascal] Error: Identifier not found "Heap Error"

2016-10-17 Thread Michael Van Canneyt 



On Mon, 17 Oct 2016, Luiz Gonzaga de Oliveira Neto wrote:


Hi all,

Thanks for the help.

Would be it be better to try to compile this with the Turbo Pascal compiler
then? Or do you think it would be easier to try to remove the lines with
these codes and continue with FPC? My fear is that in some of these
modifications I change what the code was supposed to do.


Normally, you can just remove the lines that contain HeapError.

Michael.
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Re: [fpc-pascal] Error: Identifier not found "Heap Error"

2016-10-17 Thread Luiz Gonzaga de Oliveira Neto 
Hi all,

Thanks for the help.

Would be it be better to try to compile this with the Turbo Pascal compiler
then? Or do you think it would be easier to try to remove the lines with
these codes and continue with FPC? My fear is that in some of these
modifications I change what the code was supposed to do.

Best regards,

On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 1:12 PM Bart  wrote:

> On 10/16/16, Mark Morgan Lloyd  wrote:
>
> > I've got a 5.0 manual to hand [blows dust off, coughs].
>
> See: http://putka.upm.si/langref/turboPascal/0683.html
>
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Re: [fpc-pascal] Error: Identifier not found "Heap Error"

2016-10-16 Thread Bart 
On 10/16/16, Mark Morgan Lloyd  wrote:

> I've got a 5.0 manual to hand [blows dust off, coughs].

See: http://putka.upm.si/langref/turboPascal/0683.html

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Re: [fpc-pascal] Error: Identifier not found "Heap Error"

2016-10-16 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd 

On 15/10/16 20:00, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

issues, but I still get the following error:

OPTIQAP.PAS(18,21) Error: Identifier not found "HeapError"
OPTIQAP.PAS(19,6) Error: Identifier not found "HeapError"



This is possibly code intended for Turbo Pascal. The HeapError
identifier does not exist in Free Pascal. At least, I have not found any.

In some old Free Vision code, I found a reference to HeapError which seems
to be a callback function variable, but it is not active for Free
Pascal. I suggest you simply remove any lines that contain HeapError.


I've got a 5.0 manual to hand [blows dust off, coughs]. The function 
takes size (bytes?) as parameter, returns 0 by default indicating that a 
runtime error should be raised, but may alternatively return 1 (New or 
GetMem should return Nil) or 2 (New or GetMem should retry).


Presumably it's in there to allow normal memory management to be 
augmented with application-specific garbage collection, I've seen this 
in the Pascal source for a Prolog system (not the Spivey one).


Perhaps Michael et al. would confirm this, but I'd expect FPC to use the 
OS's memory management including virtual memory, so within limits I'd 
not expect to see memory exhaustion in finite time. The residual use of 
this function is to return Nil rather than forcing a run-time error if 
there is an allocation problem.


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Re: [fpc-pascal] Error: Identifier not found "Heap Error"

2016-10-15 Thread Michael Van Canneyt 



On Sat, 15 Oct 2016, Luiz Gonzaga de Oliveira Neto wrote:


Hello all,

As mentioned in a previous e-mail, I'm having my first contact with Pascal
during my Masters research, trying to compile a code provided by a
professor.

The first mistakes I had regarded the *memavail *and *maxavail* functions,
which I've read are not supported anymore. I believe I have overcome these
issues, but I still get the following error:

OPTIQAP.PAS(18,21) Error: Identifier not found "HeapError"
OPTIQAP.PAS(19,6) Error: Identifier not found "HeapError"

As I mentioned in the previous e-mail, this code was provided by me by a
reputed professor, so I have reasons to believe it's correct. My question
is: do you know if this error could be happening due to some version
incompatibility or some missing flag during compilation? Or is it probably
caused by some mistake in the code? Or would you need more information to
answer this?

Sorry if the question is silly, as I've mentioned, this is my first contact
with Pascal and FPC.


This is possibly code intended for Turbo Pascal. 
The HeapError identifier does not exist in Free Pascal. 
At least, I have not found any.


In some old Free Vision code, I found a reference to HeapError which seems
to be a callback function variable, but it is not active for Free Pascal. 
I suggest you simply remove any lines that contain HeapError.


Michael.
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[fpc-pascal] Error: Identifier not found "Heap Error"

2016-10-15 Thread Luiz Gonzaga de Oliveira Neto 
Hello all,

As mentioned in a previous e-mail, I'm having my first contact with Pascal
during my Masters research, trying to compile a code provided by a
professor.

The first mistakes I had regarded the *memavail *and *maxavail* functions,
which I've read are not supported anymore. I believe I have overcome these
issues, but I still get the following error:

OPTIQAP.PAS(18,21) Error: Identifier not found "HeapError"
OPTIQAP.PAS(19,6) Error: Identifier not found "HeapError"

As I mentioned in the previous e-mail, this code was provided by me by a
reputed professor, so I have reasons to believe it's correct. My question
is: do you know if this error could be happening due to some version
incompatibility or some missing flag during compilation? Or is it probably
caused by some mistake in the code? Or would you need more information to
answer this?

Sorry if the question is silly, as I've mentioned, this is my first contact
with Pascal and FPC.

Thanks in advance for any help,
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