CodeBaseTeam wrote:pascal

Does it bootstrap freepascal cq Lazarus?

On the other hand, I see very few reasons to use Integer (or int in C) and at the same time, I see great disadvantages in applying it to everything. In most practical aspects, an Integer is but a 64 bit field of which only 32 bits can be used, that is int in C is generally not 64-bit even on 64-bit...

Also, most dos thread libs only exploit one core, since Dos is not a multiprocessing OS either. IOW the threads don't run at the same time, but interleaved in short intervals

Can i make windows drivers with freebasic? Device drivers are typically written in C, using the Driver Development Kit (DDK). There are functional and object-oriented ways to program drivers, depending on the language chosen to write in. It is generally not possible to program a driver in Visual Ba...

SSE2 XMM registers are not volatile in 32-bits ABI so need costly register save Strangely enough, Google refuses to give me the x86 ABI - but I'm pretty sure that xmm0 ... xmm3 are volatile registers. From my own experience, certain Windows functions started trashing these registers from Win7-64 on...

Usually for 2*wordsize emulated routines are fairly thin and can be inlined. A int32*int32 with 64-bit result is often included in the instruction sets. Larger helpers (like Divide) are part of the library (for gcc in libgcc). COMP (64-bit int in FPU) used to be slow and was rarely used for this pur...

Most of such systems are limited by the object code being hard to decompile, not by the binary form of their headers. Every major language I used (except maybe C++, but I'm sure there are compilers that support binary includes) There are C and C++ compilers with precompiled headers, e.g. MSVC (.PCH...

Sad to hear. Played with the game of life in many instances (from micro to webbased) over the years.

coderJeff wrote:
- For FreeBSD's I will have to check. Again, using the default for the platform

The system C compiler on most FreeBSD (and afaik most BSD including OS X) is LLVM's Clang

gcc is installable from ports though

Usually you check the regression coefficient R to check if the regression is valid. It is typically a value slightly under one, if you have to make the judgement programmatically it is easier to work with to check -(10log(1-R))

Same question. How do you know if the executed program/command returns an errorlevel?

jdmcbride wrote:
And rc being a string, would return the output of the command or the error text if it fails.

And how would the user differentiate between those two options?

Maybe the importlib stub changes calling convention?

Afaik you can do python communication more highlevel through a dll. See e.g. https://wiki.freepascal.org/Python4Delphi

So it should be the matter of translating the header and figuring out some examples

Disclaimer: I don't use python, this is just from my saved urls stash.

Hmm, possibly also a bit of a wave in people's habits. In the (first) lockdown period, the Lazarus forums were very busy too, but now they are also fairly calm.