jj2007 wrote:Translation, please!

Allora sei più profondo di me. Per lo più ho ottenuto "Non pugnalare quadri in soffitta" come motto principale.

the need to escape with \\.\ for the -W calls. utf8 support in the terminal is also being worked on. I've never used the \\.\ escapes, where do you need them? Note that windows paths have many kinds of \\ escapes at the beginning of the path. The most wellknown is the unc path (\\server\share), but...

Talking of good-looking chaps I have just finished 'The Picture of Dorian Gary' by Oscar Wilde which I first read fifty years ago. Needless to say I had forgotten most of it. At the end I felt a quip coming on and came up with: "It is imperative that we learn from the sins that we have committ...

Two very important recent features of the last two years: - manifest to switch the default encoding (for -A winapi calls) to UTF8 - manifest to lift the 260 char limit on filenames for the -A calls, and the need to escape with \\.\ for the -W calls. utf8 support in the terminal is also being worked ...

Note that the recent Edge update seems to have reset various security settings, and by default now all unsigned binaries are suspect.

To cleanup up an organically grown codebase, a first step would be to compile it for valgrind (via C backend?) and run it with as much as possible enabled.

Valgrind often halts on all signs of something wrong, and helps distinguishing original causes from later effects of e.g. memory corruption.

I think this kind of files is the reason why people use database systems. No. Database systems are very bad for operations that touch all data, IOW queries must have at least one major condition indexed, and the number of queries must be much larger than the original insertion/preparation/indexing ...

One (serious) question: Is it really faster to make CRC16 hashes of two strings and compare the hashes than directly comparing the strings for equality? If you have n lines in a bucket (all lines of same linesize), you need to compare all n lines to all n-1 other lines. Which means you have (n*(n-1...

Isn't a checksum just a 'low quality' hash? No, it is usually considered to be a hash to detect errors introduced by mis-sampling of bits in hardware, and those are often of the type that bits close to eachother differ. (since caused by the same disruption that causes multiple bits to toggle), so t...

I have a very large text file (near 1 TB) and on each line there is some text with a minimum length of twenty bytes and a maximum length of perhaps thousands of bytes. From this file I want to remove the duplicates entries. How would one approach this in FreeBASIC? (just my first idea, before readi...

The world of the barebones is very diverse If i understand you correctly, you want to work and compile on an embedded system or a thin client. But why dont you use a normal workstation/notebook to do that? To test the program you can use than your embedded system. You also could use a VM with the l...

And never use position arguments if the writes are sequential. Besides the write() that every put does, that adds a lseek.

Freepascal (and Lazarus) uses register; calling convention by default, not cdecl, but the GO guys could have hacked their copy of course.

Julcar wrote:
[*] I work on embeded systems, with no more than 128mb of RAM, 4GB of Hard disk, and 1 cpu core of 1ghz

(that's not an embedded system but a 1998 workstation)

Yeah today folks use javascript frameworks to crank out apps for phones and tablets and also desktops. Things like Electron have become the modern equivalent of VB6. Everyone shudders a bit at the thought of writing all the logic in javascript and shipping the complete Chrome OS--I mean browser-- w...