Gpc April 2003

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39 discussions

SizeOf sets (was: packed enumerated types?)
by Adriaan van Os 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

In the testprogram below, SizeOf( enum33) returns 4, which seems to me to be a bug. Regards, Adriaan van Os ---------- program test; type enum08 = ( a01, a02, a03, a04, a05, a06, a07, a08); enum16 = ( b01, b02, b03, b04, b05, b06, b07, b08, b09, b10, b11, b12, b13, b14, b15, b16); enum17 = ( c01, c02, c03, c04, c05, c06, c07, c08, c09, c10, c11, c12, c13, c14, c15, c16, c17); enum32 = ( d01, d02, d03, d04, d05, d06, d07, d08, d09, d10, d11, d12, d13, d14, d15, d16, d17, d18, d19, d20, d21, d22, d23, d24, d25, d26, d27, d28, d29, d30, d31, d32); enum33 = ( e01, e02, e03, e04, e05, e06, e07, e08, e09, e10, e11, e12, e13, e14, e15, e16, e17, e18, e19, e20, e21, e22, e23, e24, e25, e26, e27, e28, e29, e30, e31, e32, e33); set08 = set of enum08; set16 = set of enum16; set17 = set of enum17; set32 = set of enum32; set33 = set of enum33; begin writeln( 'SizeOf( enum08) = ', SizeOf( enum08)); writeln( 'SizeOf( enum16) = ', SizeOf( enum16)); writeln( 'SizeOf( enum17) = ', SizeOf( enum17)); writeln( 'SizeOf( enum32) = ', SizeOf( enum32)); writeln( 'SizeOf( enum33) = ', SizeOf( enum33)); end.

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grx and gpc problems
by Toby Ewing 06 Apr '03

06 Apr '03

Hi, all Trying to compile a program, I suddenly see: > Internal GPC problem: internal option '--amtmpfile' not given I had compiled the program successfully a few minutes earlier. I get this problem with every program that USES GRX that I attempt to compile. But When I attempt to compile a program that doesn't USE GRX, I see > cannot file -lgcc Any guesses? GPC was working fine for me a few weeks ago. I'm using 2.1 (20020510) based upon 2.95.3 (20010315), under win2000, installed only a few months ago. thanks, Toby

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gpc-20030323 for Mac OS X
by Adriaan van Os 06 Apr '03

06 Apr '03

Updated sources, binaries and patches for Mac OS X can be downloaded from <www.microbizz.nl/gpc.html>. Regards, Adriaan van Os

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Time functions in gpc.pas
by Markus Gerwinski 05 Apr '03

05 Apr '03

Hi folks, does somebody know a way to get the TimeZone from the system? In gpc.pas, the procedure UnitTimeToTime wants it as a parameter, so I want to fill in a reasonable value. Besides, the function expects parameters named DST, TZName1, and TZName2. Can somebody tell me what they mean and how to find reasonable values for them? Thanks, Markus

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Solver
by Cyelee Kulkarni 05 Apr '03

05 Apr '03

I'm using solver to integrate three eqautions. I want the output as a list of numerical values... how do I do this?..... Also, I'm having trouble opening files with an .mx extention, is this a common problem and is there any way I can open this file? Thanks! --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more

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Operator overloading
by Frank Heckenbach 04 Apr '03

04 Apr '03

Up to now, GPC supports overloading of binary operators like `+' and user-defined operators such as `Foo', but also only as binary operators. I propose to extend and generalize this mechanism, e.g. to unary operators. Besides the usual unary operators like `+' and `-', you can define your address operator as `@' (BP compatible) or `&' (like in C) or whatever you prefer. Also other C operators like `++' can then be easily defined without the need to have them built-in. A special case would be the `^' operator since it's used both prefix (in pointer type definitions) and postfix (in pointer dereferences). I'm still thinking about the syntax for the operator declarations, but `operator ^ (...)' and `^ operator (...)' would seem to be the most obvious choices. Some time ago, someone asked for backslash interpretation in string literals. Redefining the `'' (i.e., single quote) operator would make this easy. Also, the BP operators `#' and `^' (as in `^C') for character constants could be defined in a similar way, without messing up the syntax when they're built in. The same applies to BP's `$' for hex integer constants. But, OTOH, friends of the C syntax could define `0x' for hex and, if they like, they could even define the `0' operator for octal constants. Those who've always complained about Pascal's verbosity, could finally define the `{' and `}' operators as `begin' and `end' (preferably after defining the comment operator to `(*', `//' or whatever they prefer). And those who would prefer `;' as a statment terminator (as in C) instead of a statment separator can simply redefine this operator. Back to binary operators, apart from `:=' (as recently requested), also `,' would be a very interesting one. We could have all the interesting properties of this C operator in Pascal. Overloading `[' (for self-made arrays) and `.' (for records/objects) would work like in C++, of course, and can probably be used to implement Delphi-compatible object properties without further compiler support. Perhaps we can even define `class' as an operator (that inherits from `object', and `^') to provide for classes with implicit references. The `_' operator could be defined to be rejected in identifiers in classic Pascal (so we don't need the explicit compiler checks we have now), whereas, e.g., international letters can be allowed in identifiers by defining them as new operators. Overloading the `if' operator could be useful to make a new conditional syntax -- perhaps with `endif' to avoid problems with dangling `else' etc. By overloading `const' to `var' for typed arguments, BP's "typed constants" could be supported without any contortions in the compiler. Finally, overloading the `operator' operator seems very interesting, but I'll have to work out the details. Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank(a)g-n-u.de, http://fjf.gnu.de/, 7977168E GPC To-Do list, latest features, fixed bugs: http://www.gnu-pascal.de/todo.html GPC download signing key: 51FF C1F0 1A77 C6C2 4482 4DDC 117A 9773 7F88 1707

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Use of external and attribute keywords
by Dominique Louis 04 Apr '03

04 Apr '03

Hi All, A few of questions 1. When using the "external" keyword in GPC, do you have to specify the "name" keyword or does it default to the function name like in Delphi? 2. When defining function pointers, the Gnu Pascal compiler complains if I specify attribute(cdecl); For example type TSDL_Mixer = function( param1 : PSDL_Sound; param2 : Pointer ) : integer; attribute( cdecl );// <--- I get a compilation error here How do I specify the calling convention of a function pointer in Gnu Pascal? 3. If I have installed the Dev Pascal IDE how do I update to the latest snapshot so that I can start using the new keywords. Thanks, Dominique http://www.DelphiGamer.com := go on, write a game instead;

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attribute const: no warning?
by Eike Lange 03 Apr '03

03 Apr '03

Hi Folks! By Compiling the following program with the given unit, the compiler throws no warning but fails running. program Foo; uses MySQL; begin WriteLn (MySQLOptConnectTimeout); MySQLOptConnectTimeout := 100; WriteLn (MySQLOptConnectTimeout); end. { ======== } unit MySQL; interface var MySQLOptConnectTimeout: Integer; external name '_p_MYSQL_OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT'; attribute (const); implementation {$L mysqlc.c, mysqlclient} end. _p_MYSQL_OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT is defined as "const int" in a C file. What do I have to do to make GPC throwing at least one warning like "accessing read only variable". BTW: Is mixing of attributes allowed like this: MySQLOptConnectTimeout: Integer; external; attribute (const, name ('_p_MYSQL_OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT')); Eike

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Locale Directory
by Eike Lange 03 Apr '03

03 Apr '03

Hi Folks! I'd like to improve the facilities of our `intl' unit which interfaces GNU Gettext. There is one little problem with it: The user of this unit might not know where to install and retrive the locale informations, needed by `BindTextDomain'. * A common place under Unix like systems might be /Executable-Path-Without-Bin/share/locale which is well defined for Linux. * What about DJGPP, MinGW, CygWin, MacOS, ...? Are there common rules to find the locale directory? As a reference source code for this problem, you might want to have a look at `gettextdemo.pas'. Thanks for your help Eike

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