I think a non GCC compiler backend like Visual Studio would be the logical next step. Following this logic I would vote for LLVM IR over Visual Studio. Again, why? What do you know about LLVM IR and its long term stability? I'm told its all fairly influx on even an year or couple of years scale. Th...

I think a non GCC compiler backend like Visual Studio would be the logical next step.

dodicat wrote:IMO the freepascal .chm help files are not very good......

I don't recognize the picture you paint at all. Not even parts.

Ref manuals are usually too fragmented anyway for beginners, without much head or tail. From my experience: manuals are the hardest type of documents and have most detailed information, documentations are a down to earth piece of information for both beginners and intermediate users, you could thin...

The conversion is not related to the signed type of the handle type, but due to the Windows kernel being at the top of the memory range. Are you sure? Any reference to that? Dave Cutler c.s ? Search for "Dave Cutler Windows NT". Which mem range, 32-bit or 64-bit? My Win7-64 CreateFileA , ...

As usual, opinions differ , marcov ;-) According to docs.microsoft... , converting from 32 to 64 bit handles involves sign-extending the value, so this means handles are NOT unsigned 64-bit versions of Windows use 32-bit handles for interoperability. When sharing a handle between 32-bit and 64-bit ...

Besides, sometimes the manual writers get feedback not from their "clients" but from the top level experts - and their feedback is often detrimental to the purpose of teaching, because they want that the manual complies 110% with the most recent ISOxxx standard, and their jargon is comple...

Windows handles are unsigned, that is normal.

Better to choose something familiar than invent something will just MORE awkward, forever. Maybe, if all things are equal. But quite often foreign syntax is rooted in principles that are different, like C like languages habit of making everything an expression, or in block assignments with single =...

IIRC add /usr/local/lib to /etc ld.so.conf and run ldconfig. (important! on FreeBSD it really doesn't pick it up till you run it, while on linux editing is often enough) There are security implementations of course, but if the system is not heavily multi user with untrusted users, it probably doesn'...

So the Delphi developer was right about initialize everything is the by design behavior of fbc and can't be easily changed. I don't know if his argument about performance is right or not, though. There is a small penalty. You can argue two ways, one, "it is a small price to pay for a bit secur...

Please note that for manifesting I was talking about UTF8 with -A functions, not converting them, and passing them on to UTF16 apis. That is Windows 10, and I bet that you'll find MultiByteToWideChar once you dive into the WhatEverA call ;-) Yes, and a not too old one. (1905 or so), but basically t...

Please note that for manifesting I was talking about UTF8 with -A functions, not converting them, and passing them on to UTF16 apis.

Of course, the console is another story; it works fine for Russian with the Lucida Console or Consolas fonts on my Italian OS, but to display Chinese in the console, you need some acrobatics - unless you have a Chinese Windows version, I suppose. No it is possible. IIRC you either need to install t...

I forget the technical terms, but basically indexing a string in UTF-16 is no faster than UTF-8 for the same reasons. Rule of thumb is that processing UTF16 is slower because it means accessing more bytes for Western scripts. It is about equal for cyrillic and middle eastern languages, and it is wo...