Am 2014-10-06 um 07:55 schrieb Sven Barth:
On 06.10.2014 07:20, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
Am 2014-10-05 um 20:21 schrieb Sven Barth:
Please note that GetLastError is Windows-specific. The cross platform
function in SysUtils is called GetLastOSError which does return Integer.
And why does a
Am 2014-10-05 um 15:08 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
A typecast will be needed somewhere.
Yes, instead of assigning the two values as in
Integer_Type := DWord_Type;
MOVE could be used:
move(DWord_Type,Integer_Type,sizeof(DWord_Type));
This way no range check would trigger and no bit would
Am 06.10.2014 17:55 schrieb Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de:
Am 2014-10-06 um 07:55 schrieb Sven Barth:
On 06.10.2014 07:20, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
Am 2014-10-05 um 20:21 schrieb Sven Barth:
Please note that GetLastError is Windows-specific. The cross platform
function
On Sat, 4 Oct 2014, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
In my programs I use this code quite often:
SysErrorMessage(GetLastError);
A closer look at SysErrorMessage shows that the ERRORCODE will
not be used in this routine but only handed over to
FormatMessageA which expects a DWORD!
Am 2014-10-05 um 12:10 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
Not necessarily, because it is a cross-platform function and on other systems
the error codes are not necessarily positive values.
Unfortunately, this kind of windows-api-creep is found throughout the RTL.
The proper procedure is probably to
But the current situation is wrong for *all* plattforms
FormatMessage doesn't exist on non-Windows platform. SysErrorMessage doesn't
call FormatMessage on Linux for instance.
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Am 05.10.2014 12:28 schrieb Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de:
Am 2014-10-05 um 12:10 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
Not necessarily, because it is a cross-platform function and on other
systems the error codes are not necessarily positive values.
Unfortunately, this kind of
In my programs I use this code quite often:
SysErrorMessage(GetLastError);
But recently my program had a range check
error which let me have a look at the definiton
of the 2 functions GetLastError and SysErrorMessage.
GetLastError is from the WinAPI:
