[fpc-devel] Unit search error?

2007-12-04 Thread Leonardo M. Ram
When trying to compile Zeos lib using FPC 2.2.0 and 2.3.1, the compiler complains with a "Can't find unit ZAbstractRODataset", but the file is there, with exactly that name. After some minutes trying to figure out what was the problem, I renamed the unit to its lowercase version, "zabstractrodat

Re: [fpc-devel] Controlling the output of the widestring manager

2007-12-04 Thread Jonas Maebe
Marc Weustink wrote on di, 04 dec 2007: Jonas Maebe wrote: Are widestrings supposed to be UTF-16 or UCS-2 on unix? Currently they are UTF-16, but a lot of routines seem to assume UCS-2 (like the generic WideStringToUCS4String, and the unix Lower/UpperWideString) It is a bit confusin

Re: [fpc-devel] Controlling the output of the widestring manager

2007-12-04 Thread Marc Weustink
Jonas Maebe wrote: On 02 Dec 2007, at 20:40, Florian Klaempfl wrote: BTW: for other encodings it doesn't work either on unix ... Are widestrings supposed to be UTF-16 or UCS-2 on unix? Currently they are UTF-16, but a lot of routines seem to assume UCS-2 (like the generic WideStringToUCS4S

Re: [fpc-devel] Controlling the output of the widestring manager

2007-12-04 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 02 Dec 2007, at 20:40, Florian Klaempfl wrote: BTW: for other encodings it doesn't work either on unix ... Are widestrings supposed to be UTF-16 or UCS-2 on unix? Currently they are UTF-16, but a lot of routines seem to assume UCS-2 (like the generic WideStringToUCS4String, and the uni

Re: [fpc-devel] Parallel Computing

2007-12-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 04/12/2007, Mark Morgan Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the point stands however about poor language support for the concept > in the fairly early days. However from the point of view of FPC I think we've > got to work out whether there's scope for improvement of threads etc. (e.g. T

Re: [fpc-devel] Parallel Computing

2007-12-04 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: A quick Google search confirms our thoughts. SMP was indeed in OS/2 2.11. OK, I'll gladly concede the point about SMP on OS/2, but the fact remains that SMP didn't really take off on PCs until around 2000. I think the point stands however about poor language support

Re: [fpc-devel] (patch) An attempt to improve assignments/function result reuse

2007-12-04 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 04 Dec 2007, at 11:30, Sergei Gorelkin wrote: Currently, when assigning types that need helper routines (records, Windows widestrings and variants), the compiler converts assignment into a helper call immediately. If this is moved from typecheckpass to pass1, certain assignments get the