[fpc-pascal] Boolean types

What is assignment-compatible with a bytebool etc.? My reading of the manual suggested that it should be possible to assign numeric zero or non-zero, but fPB1L: bytebool; .. fPB1L := 0; b5500centralcontrol.pas(119,18) Error: Incompatible types: got "ShortInt" expected "ByteBool" -- Mark Mo

Re: [fpc-pascal] how to initialize a SearchRec var?

On 2014-01-02 19:21, waldo kitty wrote: > > we do not want to turn off hints so how can we initialize dirinfo and make > fpc > happy? I hate such hints too! This is what I did in my code to prevent that unwanted hint. One part is the usage of an out parameter, and the second part is the {$HIN

Re: [fpc-pascal] Boolean types

Am 03.01.2014 09:59 schrieb "Mark Morgan Lloyd" < markmll.fpc-pas...@telemetry.co.uk>: > > What is assignment-compatible with a bytebool etc.? True, False and a Boolean variable of any other of the Boolean types. > > My reading of the manual suggested that it should be possible to assign numeric

Re: [fpc-pascal] how to initialize a SearchRec var?

Am 03.01.2014 08:36 schrieb "Mark Morgan Lloyd" < markmll.fpc-pas...@telemetry.co.uk>: > > Sven Barth wrote: >> >> On 02.01.2014 22:27, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: >>> >>> Sven Barth wrote: === code begin === var dirinfo: SearchRec; begin dirinfo := Default(Searc

Re: [fpc-pascal] how to initialize a SearchRec var?

Am 03.01.2014 10:34 schrieb "Graeme Geldenhuys" : > > On 2014-01-02 19:21, waldo kitty wrote: > > > > we do not want to turn off hints so how can we initialize dirinfo and make fpc > > happy? > > > I hate such hints too! This is what I did in my code to prevent that > unwanted hint. > > One part is

[fpc-pascal] How to eliminate specific hint (was: how to initialize a SearchRec var?)

> // prevents the compiler hint about not initialized variables > procedure dcpFillChar(out x; count: SizeInt; Value: Byte); > begin >   {$HINTS OFF} >   FillChar(x, count, value); >   {$HINTS ON} > end; > > > begin > >    dcpFillchar(dirinfo,sizeof(dirinfo),$00); >    FindFirst(pattern,AnyFile,dir

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to eliminate specific hint (was: how to initialize a SearchRec var?)

Am 03.01.2014 11:06 schrieb "Pierre Free Pascal" : > > > // prevents the compiler hint about not initialized variables > > procedure dcpFillChar(out x; count: SizeInt; Value: Byte); > > begin > > {$HINTS OFF} > > FillChar(x, count, value); > > {$HINTS ON} > > end; > > > > > > begin > > > >

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to eliminate specific hint

Am 2014-01-03 12:07, schrieb Sven Barth: > Maybe one should also mention that this can be done in code as well for specific locations: > === code begin === > {$push} > {$warn 5058 off} > // whatever > {$pop} > === code end === It seems it can be made still easier by right-clicking on the messag

Re: [fpc-pascal] cannot read /sys/class/net/eth1/address even as root user on linux

On Fri, 3 Jan 2014, Dennis Poon wrote: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Dennis Poon wrote: I tried to read the mac address in the captioned file path. In terminal, I can simply 'cat' and display the mac address. In FPC, when I tried to use TFileStream to read it, FS :=

Re: [fpc-pascal] how to initialize a SearchRec var?

On 2014-01-03 09:46, Sven Barth wrote: > This way if the hints are switched off before that code is reached they > will stay off afterwards instead of being switched on. Interesting, thanks for the tip. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal ht

[fpc-pascal] Mailing list server migration

Hi, I plan to migrate the mailing lists to a another server within the next hours/days. This might cause some down time. I hope no data gets lost :) Florian ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/

Re: [fpc-pascal] [fpc-devel] Mailing list server migration

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Re: [fpc-pascal] How to eliminate specific hint

Am 03.01.2014 13:23 schrieb "Jürgen Hestermann" : > > Am 2014-01-03 12:07, schrieb Sven Barth: > > Maybe one should also mention that this can be done in code as well for specific locations: > > === code begin === > > {$push} > > {$warn 5058 off} > > // whatever > > {$pop} > > === code end === > >

[fpc-pascal] How to eliminate specific hint

(Sending again: the mailserver bounced it the first time.) On 1/3/14, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > It seems it can be made still easier by right-clicking on the message > in the message window and by selecting "Hide message via directive". > Then a {%H-} is appended to the variable that caused the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Boolean types

b5500centralcontrol.pas(119,18) Error: Incompatible types: got "ShortInt" expected "ByteBool" >> >> b5500centralcontrol.pas(119,18) Error: Incompatible types: got >> "ShortInt" expected "ByteBool" > > You need to cast nevertheless. It's just that they can be used in > place of e.g. BOOL parameter