[fpc-pascal] internal error with bitpacked record in i386 with O3

(I know this is more suited for fpc-devel, but every email I sent to that list gets bounced back to me. My apologies.) I logged this mantis issue: http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=29669 Any ideas for a workaround in the meantime? I'm hoping to get a whole bunch of production code

Re: [fpc-pascal] Happy tickets benchmark

I don't want to insist on this, but: if you measure the runtime of your program you result = runtime + error. If you measure a series against MIN you measure MIN(result) = runtime + MIN(error) which delivers the best value for runtime. Am 17.02.2016 um 12:28 schrieb Serguei TARASSOV: > On

Re: [fpc-pascal] Happy tickets benchmark

On 02/17/2016 06:28 AM, Serguei TARASSOV wrote: On 17/02/2016 12:00, fpc-pascal-requ...@lists.freepascal.org wrote: small remark for your testing series: AVG makes no sense, you should test against MIN - why ? the measured results are contaminated by other activities on your system, so the

[fpc-pascal] Primitive Record Wrappers

Hello list, In some situations, would be very interesting to determine whether the value of a primitive variable is initialized or not. For example, fields in database records can contain null values. By implementing an ORM, it would be interesting to represent these null values in the properties

Re: [fpc-pascal] Variable Initialization Questions

Jonas Maebe wrote: 3 - When i declare a pointer as a global variable or as a member of a record, can i assume that its initial value is nil? No. Correction: all global variables are always zeroed, so that includes pointers, records and hence also pointers in records (if those records

Re: [fpc-pascal] Variable Initialization Questions

Mazola Winstrol wrote: 1 - Does the compiler automatically initialize all class fields when a new instance is created? They're called instance fields, and yes, they are zeroed. Class fields are fields that that are unique per class type, rather than per instance. 2 - Does the compiler

[fpc-pascal] Variable Initialization Questions

Hello List, After googled and searching in the documentation, http://free-pascal-general.1045716.n5.nabble.com/does-Advanced-Record-constructor-automatically-zero-all-the-memory-space-of-that-record-td5716755.html http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse23.html i still have doubts about

Re: [fpc-pascal] Happy tickets benchmark

On 17/02/2016 12:00, fpc-pascal-requ...@lists.freepascal.org wrote: Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:44:42 +0100 From: Adrian Veith To: FPC-Pascal users discussions Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Happy tickets benchmark small remark for your testing