Re: [fpc-devel] How does one request new features?

2017-12-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 04/12/17 21:15, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 4 Dec 2017, J. Gareth Moreton wrote: Hi everyone,>> I have a little question to ask.  If one wishes to request new features for a future version of Free Pascal, > how does one go about it and what is the process of determining if it is a goo

Re: [fpc-devel] How does one request new features?

2017-12-05 Thread Bart
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > But please make sure that any wiki page is marked as being for the > discussion of a suggestion, and that it's deleted if not adopted. The wiki's > already got a maintenance problem with outmoded examples etc. As pinted out, there alrea

Re: [fpc-devel] How does one request new features?

2017-12-05 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
Thanks for the answers everyone. I've added my suggestion near the bottom of the page. I wasn't sure because what I propose is a language feature, namely per-type byte alignment. Kit On Tue 05/12/17 13:05 , Bart bartjun...@gmail.com sent: > On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd

Re: [fpc-devel] How does one request new features?

2017-12-05 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
Should I still open a bug/feature request though? When it comes to high-performance applications such as games and scientific/mathematical programs, I feel this is quite important. Kit On Tue 05/12/17 17:34 , "J. Gareth Moreton" gar...@moreton-family.com sent: > Thanks for the answers everyone

Re: [fpc-devel] Double-check Linux 64-bit SSE return value handling

2017-12-05 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 04/12/17 13:01, J. Gareth Moreton wrote: Fair enough. I would have thought that "array[0..3] of Single" would count - granted, there's no clean way to specify a type-specific byte alignment yet, it seems. The question came about because it looked like the lower 2 Singles were put into one

Re: [fpc-devel] Double-check Linux 64-bit SSE return value handling

2017-12-05 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
Ah, thank you for clearing that up. Time for a different approach then - feature request! Kit On Tue 05/12/17 21:08 , Jonas Maebe jo...@freepascal.org sent: > On 04/12/17 13:01, J. Gareth Moreton wrote: > > > Fair enough. I would have thought that > "array[0..3] of Single" would count - grant

Re: [fpc-devel] How does one request new features?

2017-12-05 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
(Just bringing it up here because I've noticed that the feature ideas page doesn't tend to get many updates.) Okay, I've put forth two feature requests over here: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Feature_Ideas#FPC (I made a new "FPC" section because these are language features rather than c

Re: [fpc-devel] How does one request new features?

2017-12-05 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Tue, December 5, 2017 21:50, J. Gareth Moreton wrote: > Should I still open a bug/feature request though? When it comes to > high-performance applications such as > games and scientific/mathematical programs, I feel this is quite > important. I believe that the feature request entry in Mantis (

[fpc-devel] Fppkg web-client

2017-12-05 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Hi all, As some of you might know, I'm working for quite some time for something like a package-manager for fpc. I'm working on a system on which you can build, test and upload packages. And which can be used to create the repository. I'm using all kind of stuff which is new to me, which me