On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 04:45, Martin wrote:
> On 09/07/2011 17:12, Chad Berchek wrote:
>>
>> Wow, thanks for the insults guys. I didn't realize I was so stupid.
>>
>> You missed my point too, BTW. According to the link given:
>>
>> "A constant argument is passed by reference if its size is larger
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich
wrote:
> Flávio Etrusco schrieb:
>
>> Isn't this unfortunately encumbered by patents?
>> http://wiki.winehq.org/CompilerExceptionSupport
>>
>> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/05/05/12/1947213/Winelib-Hobbled-by-Exception-Handling-Patent
>
> Softwa
Flávio Etrusco schrieb:
Isn't this unfortunately encumbered by patents?
http://wiki.winehq.org/CompilerExceptionSupport
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/05/05/12/1947213/Winelib-Hobbled-by-Exception-Handling-Patent
Software patents should not be a problem outside the USA. A nice try,
but unimpor
Op Sat, 9 Jul 2011, schreef Flávio Etrusco:
Isn't this unfortunately encumbered by patents?
http://wiki.winehq.org/CompilerExceptionSupport
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/05/05/12/1947213/Winelib-Hobbled-by-Exception-Handling-Patent
That is a problem. However:
* It's a US patent, so irrelevan
On 09/07/2011 17:12, Chad Berchek wrote:
Wow, thanks for the insults guys. I didn't realize I was so stupid.
You missed my point too, BTW. According to the link given:
"A constant argument is passed by reference if its size is larger than
a pointer."
So you always know what the size of a poi
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
(...)
> The main problem here is that FPC's exception handling is based on
> setjump/longjump. This technique has a relatively high overhead for "try",
> but low overhead when an exception actually occurs (of course, since
> exceptions are suppose
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 18:12, Chad Berchek wrote:
> Wow, thanks for the insults guys. I didn't realize I was so stupid.
>
> You missed my point too, BTW. According to the link given:
>
> "A constant argument is passed by reference if its size is larger than a
> pointer."
>
> So you always know wha
Chad Berchek schrieb:
Wow, thanks for the insults guys. I didn't realize I was so stupid.
Waking up? ;-)
You missed my point too, BTW. According to the link given:
"A constant argument is passed by reference if its size is larger than a
pointer."
People like you should not read such deta
On 09 Jul 2011, at 18:41, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> That part of the manual is wrong. What const does is by design completely
> implementation-dependent (except for cdecl/cppdecl routines, where it behaves
> the same as in C/C++, and for mwpascal routines, where it behaves the same as
> in MetroWer
On 09 Jul 2011, at 03:29, Martin wrote:
> We do know:
> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu58.html#x135-14500011.4.4
>> A constant argument is passed by reference if its size is larger than a
>> pointer. It is passed by value if the size is equal or is less then the size
>> of a nativ
Wow, thanks for the insults guys. I didn't realize I was so stupid.
You missed my point too, BTW. According to the link given:
"A constant argument is passed by reference if its size is larger than a
pointer."
So you always know what the size of a pointer is? If I have this record:
TMyRec =
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Thaddy wrote:
> Isn't it time to cut this discussion short? const means do not modify! full
> stop! whatever by reference or value. The rest is bovine extrement.
Not so fast.
As Hans-Peter Diettrich said: "Pascal "const" parameters are
optimization hints in the fi
On 9-7-2011 3:29, Martin wrote:
On 09/07/2011 02:14, Chad Berchek wrote:
Specifically, the way const is now "defined" (or not...) is
disturbing because it leaves out important details. In C++, you can
pass by value or reference, or by pointer which is a value but is
used to make references. Bu
Ludo Brands wrote:
For completeness and playing Devil's Advocate, I do have to
ask whether
pre-v9 (i.e. pre-UltraSPARC) systems are relevant any more.
QEMU emulates V8. That's why I had to "downgrade".
That seems an entirely adequate reason, since I believe a lot of
developers use Qemu.
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Martin wrote:
> On 09/07/2011 00:59, Max Vlasov wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Martin wrote:
>>>
>>> function CRCConstString(constref Str: string): integer;
>>> does what you describ
>>
>> Hmm, it's interesting.. Some observations:
>> - constref is im
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