Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-24 Thread Sven Barth
Am 24.12.2012 07:48 schrieb Martin Schreiber mse00...@gmail.com: On Sunday 23 December 2012 17:44:53 Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said: Do you know how RTTI will be encoded? I would guess short/ansistrings, since pascal identifiers must be a

Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-24 Thread Jeppe Græsdal Johansen
Den 24-12-2012 07:53, Martin Schreiber skrev: On Sunday 23 December 2012 17:44:53 Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said: Do you know how RTTI will be encoded? I would guess short/ansistrings, since pascal identifiers must be a subset of ASCII anyway. Not

Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-24 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Monday 24 December 2012 10:23:00 Sven Barth wrote: Am 24.12.2012 07:48 schrieb Martin Schreiber mse00...@gmail.com: On Sunday 23 December 2012 17:44:53 Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said: Do you know how RTTI will be encoded? I would

Re: [fpc-devel] INCLUDESTRINGFILE patch.

2012-12-24 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 23 Dec 2012, Den wrote: Hi all,     I must say, it is actually quite fun to be a part of the FPC Developers mailing list, I don't know why I didn't join sooner.  Quite interesting conversations and ideas, a little bit of bickering but very understanding people in general, I like

Non-ASCII identifiers (was: Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status)

2012-12-24 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Martin Schreiber wrote: On Monday 24 December 2012 10:23:00 Sven Barth wrote: As I already wrote there are currently no plans to change that FPC supports only ASCII identifiers. I don't think we can trust on that. I hoped that FPC will not use cpstrnew too. So if somebody implements non

[fpc-devel] registry changes

2012-12-24 Thread Martin
Writing this from my laptop I do not currently have all the various checkouts to look at the exact changes myself. But enquiring based on the reports I have read. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=23523 From FPC trunk r23202 log: * Include regdef.inc only if XMLREG is defined

Re: Non-ASCII identifiers (was: Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status)

2012-12-24 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: too. So if somebody implements non ASCII identifiers because he needs a second source Delphi compiler it will be merged because the addition does not break existing code. I assume utf-8 identifiers would not be very difficult to do in

Re: Non-ASCII identifiers (was: Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status)

2012-12-24 Thread Martin
On 24/12/2012 12:17, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: too. So if somebody implements non ASCII identifiers because he needs a second source Delphi compiler it will be merged because the addition does not break existing code. I assume utf-8 identifiers

Re: Non-ASCII identifiers (was: Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status)

2012-12-24 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Martin said: Hm that makes it easy to have an incomplete list, that could later become a problem half-width spaces etc..., control chars (RTL/LTR...), currently unused codepoints (that could become anything in future...) Still shorter than what is allowed. And

Re: Non-ASCII identifiers (was: Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status)

2012-12-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 24/12/12 11:22, Martin wrote: half-width spaces etc..., control chars (RTL/LTR...), currently unused codepoints (that could become anything in future...) As Marco said, the list will be smaller than the allowed list. Also the Unicode specification defines blocks or categories for code

Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-24 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Hans-Peter Diettrich said: and component libraries to the new strings, RTL and LCL? IMO a typical loose-loose situation :-( ? No, the old RTL will remain maintained. It's the same codebase, just recompiled. Sorry, I doubt that it is so easy :-( Just a

Re: [fpc-devel] mips-linux and mipsel-linux snapshots available

2012-12-24 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Nikolai Zhubr wrote: Hi Sergei and Mark, 16.12.2012 12:41, Sergei Gorelkin: [...] This was caused by insufficient alignment of Double-typed temp variables, fixed in r23146. Moreover, it appeared that function UnixToWinAge wasn't doing anything useful since year 2005, so it was removed in

Re: [fpc-devel] registry changes

2012-12-24 Thread Yury Sidorov
Hi, OK. I'll add needed defines to registry unit for Windows using this method: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE= windows.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Yury Sidorov, j...@cp-lab.com - Original Message - From: Martin To: FPC developers' list Sent: Monday, December 24, 2012 1:13 PM Subject: [fpc-devel]

Re: Non-ASCII identifiers (was: Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status)

2012-12-24 Thread Martin
On 24/12/2012 13:05, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Martin said: Hm that makes it easy to have an incomplete list, that could later become a problem half-width spaces etc..., control chars (RTL/LTR...), currently unused codepoints (that could become anything in future...)

Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-24 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Friday 21 December 2012 18:16:06 Florian Klämpfl wrote: If nobody is interested in features you need, bad luck for you, you have three possibilities: develop them yourself, pay somebody to develop them or use another compiler. BTW, I actually think about to fork Free Pascal. Not in the

Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-24 Thread Henry Vermaak
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 05:19:58PM +0100, Martin Schreiber wrote: BTW, I actually think about to fork Free Pascal. Not in the near future but the primary goals are defined already: - Back to the roots. What are the roots? - Add the necessary to build the most productive universal

Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

2012-12-24 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Monday 24 December 2012 17:45:34 Henry Vermaak wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 05:19:58PM +0100, Martin Schreiber wrote: BTW, I actually think about to fork Free Pascal. Not in the near future but the primary goals are defined already: - Back to the roots. What are the roots? - Add