I've studied Image rotation by -90,90 somewhat. First: rotating a jpg is often possible without actual decompression which can be very fast. IOW if you e.g. load a jpg, rotate it and then send it to the user in a webservice, read up on the jpg format. Second, when rotating a bitmap (8bit in my case)...

specially if you have beginners as a potential target group Should a B ASIC dialect not have beginners as a potential target group? Why? Look at the contents of the forum. Macro trickery all around. Is that beginner friendly? Also development is more general improvement for a compiler, and not spec...

I seriously doubt FB is going to bleed users to FPC. Both are niche compilers, used mostly by enthusiasts. Indeed. If a user of a niche language changes language, it usually goes overboard on the other end. As commercial and popular as possible. Still JJ raises some good points, usability is import...

marcov, I'm confused. It happens :-) I learn a lot from you about languages and programming ... style?? (maybe, technique, attitude, history??) Good. But you are ALWAYS here selling FPC. Comparing to FPC, which is a different thing. I just take FPC as measuring rod. For two reasons. ⋅  I ...

marcov, I agree with everything you say, and I don't think I've ever put down FPC or claimed that FB is better than FPC. That is not my intention. My intention is to compare FB that advocates a lot of "we are like C" (compatible) sentiment, with FPC that doesn't, to see what the "we ...

At the very least it should be made clear what aspect of C compatibility is meant, ... There's 3 areas where "gcc/c" and "g++/c++" influence the project. Language features: - C like pointers using '*' to dereference - in some contexts C like arrays / pointer indexing using '[ind...

On Linux I haven't yet seen an llvm package that didn't include llc... If you include crosscompiling toolchains, the Android NDK for Linux doesn't include it and apparently never has. I just downloaded the latest NDK to check it doesn't have it either. In fact the changelog says that "as"...

adeyblue wrote: Return (@this.dwEvent) + 1 '' return a pointer that points to the DWORD after dwEvent

Change that to (BYTE*) @this)+sizeof(*this) or so ? Iow the first byte after the struct would be more generic than assuming the field before is called "dwevent" and DWord sized.

There is a third option, isn't there? Emit LLVM bitcode, without linking to the LLVM libraries, and without using Clang. I thought that was the original intent behind LLVM. That's also fairly close to LLVM, so I lumped that in the same category. I added the "link to the llvm libraries" la...

Hi marcov, I meant the poke with the utmost respect. I think we have had some friendly worthwhile discussions from time to time about FPC's development and fbc's short-comings. I feel you have me at disadvantage as I think I am certain you likely know a lot more about fbc than I will know about FPC...

Mixing of .o files from C and from Fbc. fbc has a high degree of compatibility with C. Regardless of what anyone says [yes, I'm thinking of your opinions, marcov, :) ], it is a goal of the project. In theory, you should be able to freely mix C and fbc code. And how can you do this more (with the ga...

Some discussion has come up before, not just gfx, on how to add new things to fbc. The main issues are: - negative reactions to adding new global namespace keywords to fbc - negative reactions to making users to use '#include' to get additional features https://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php...

In FreePascal sometimes an empty struct (sizeof()=0) is used in these cases. The type is wrong (not DWORD), but at least you have the dwparms identifier and the size matches. It is then accessed with an expression like pdword(@structref.dwparms)[index]; I'm not entirely sure what would function if d...

As I think about it, all modern IDEs essentially use compilers as libraries. Either they use an existing compiler as a library (like llvm) or implement the compiler themselves in the editor. That's the only way to get complex type and symbol information, especially with a complex language like C++....

It is the same with FPC, and there it occasionally is verified. As you certainly know: "talk is cheap, money buys the whisky". ;-) Can you provide code that proves your claim? I'm not going to sweat it for your hang-ups. Just not expect the rest of us to share them. If you care, test it y...