Re: [fpc-devel] Improving Ref Counting

2005-03-01 Thread DrDiettrich
Jamie McCracken wrote: > A GC needs to trace an object's references to see if anything still > points to it. How else can it decide whether an object is no longer in use? GC starts from known alive object references, in static or local variables, and follows the references in these objects to fur

[fpc-devel] Performace question about dynamic arrays.

2005-03-01 Thread Agustin Barto
Some on the fpc-pascal list suggested that I should ask the devel guys, so here goes: Attached there's a little program that I wrote to test the performace of several Extended matrix implementations. I tested the three implementations both on Delphi 7 and fpc 1.9.8 (on Linux and Windows) and the f

[fpc-devel] A bug for fpc 1.9.8?

2005-03-01 Thread Zhong Wang
Hello, everyone I am using fpc 1.9.8. I find that the function of FPSigaction in BaseUnix unit dosen't work. I use the example in the document for FPSigaction, but it can't compile, just give the following error report: >test.pp(25,20) Error: Identifier not found "TSigaction" The sou

Re: [fpc-devel] Changes to gtk 2 bindings

2005-03-01 Thread Marco van de Voort
> So here they are. Initially I was making my changes versus gtk2forpascal > from sourceforge, but now I made them versus FPC sources, since I can't > connect to gtk2forpascal cvs on sourceforge. I also noticed that version > from FPC tree already contains some of the fixes I was going to send..