Re: [fpc-other] What makes a Compiler project (like FPC) special?

2017-05-26 Thread Paul Robinson
Graeme Geldenhuys asked in Vol 108, Issue 27, "What makes a compiler project special?" Well, I'm not a member of the FPC but I've worked on several compilers and I'll throw in my 0.02 Euro into the discussion. > Since Florian mentioned that a compiler project is "rocket science" [not his > direc

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-26 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/26/2017 6:25 PM, nore...@z505.com wrote: > > Indeed I hate web based programs of all kinds, but, after lots of my > email clients corrupted their databases which were not in plain text > and I lost my emails, I started using web servers and web programs as > email clients for lots of email. T

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-26 Thread noreply
Forgot about another solution to wasting time on email.. The Donald Knuth solution! Simply do not use email, and demand people write you letters in the mail if they wish to receive a reply... Not sure what Knuth is up to lately or what his software projects are. But although I find this soluti

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-26 Thread noreply
On 2017-05-25 06:10, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: On 25/05/17 10:20, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-25 09:02, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:> even if most of the time he> pushes it far harder than many of us enjoy. I’m afraid it’s an occupational habit. My job as a technical consultant and develop

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-26 Thread noreply
On 2017-05-26 10:27, Ralf Quint wrote: On 5/26/2017 4:36 AM, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: hahaha... nope... just experienced readers of messages who have learned how to work through them fairly quickly and easily... i will grant that it does take an hour or two... if i'm offering someone some

Re: [fpc-other] Felipe: Java and multi-threading

2017-05-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-05-26 15:56, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Attached is the corrected version of your sample application without the volatile keyword. It is worth noting that using volatile is faster, but also has its limits (ie: you can't protect a whole block of code or actions). To add to this, there is a

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-26 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/26/2017 4:36 AM, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: > > hahaha... nope... just experienced readers of messages who have > learned how to work through them fairly quickly and easily... i will > grant that it does take an hour or two... if i'm offering someone some > help and have to go write code,

Re: [fpc-other] Felipe: Java and multi-threading

2017-05-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi Felipe, > This simple program never ends if you delete the volatile keyword (I > tested here in Windows): Yes, I got the same behaviour as you, using Java 1.8 under FreeBSD. But I immediately saw your problem. You are accessing the same data from more than one thread. That has always been a

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-26 Thread wkitty42
On 05/26/2017 12:51 AM, nore...@z505.com wrote: On 2017-05-25 04:20, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: while i understand what you are saying, i always get a huge belly laugh when someone says anything about cluttering an inbox... that's just crazy when you have filters that can easily move new mai

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

2017-05-26 Thread Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis via fpc-other
Hi, Στις 2017-05-26 13:55, Sven Barth via fpc-other έγραψε: 2017-05-25 17:24 GMT+02:00 Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis via fpc-other : < snip > Ok just setup gogs for testbed / evaluation at https://fpc-scm.nephelae.eu/ . Anyone interested for admin credentials for evaluation just email me privat

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

2017-05-26 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-other
2017-05-25 17:24 GMT+02:00 Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis via fpc-other : > Hi, > Στις 2017-05-25 17:34, Sven Barth via fpc-other έγραψε: > > < snip > > >> a core dev). Though we'd need to implement such restrictions anyway no >> matter what we choose for the repo hosted on our own server... > > > Ok jus

Re: [fpc-other] What makes a Compiler project (like FPC) special?

2017-05-26 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-other
2017-05-25 21:29 GMT+02:00 Graeme Geldenhuys : > On 2017-05-25 19:47, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: > So what is Florian going on about regarding workflow and Git not being able > to cope in a "compiler" based project? He made it out as if FPC will not be > workable in a Git managed environment. I don't s

Re: [fpc-other] What makes a Compiler project (like FPC) special?

2017-05-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-05-25 19:48, Florian Klämpfl wrote: We try to keep fpc layered and everything, nevertheless, the unit dependency graph looks terrible, see attachment Thanks for the information Florian. Just curious, what tool did you use to generate that graph? Regards, Graeme __