Unofficial CHM Specification - Bugs: bug #30093, Variable type (Signedness) of...

Group

Main
- Main
- View members
- Search
Homepage
Download
Support
- Submit new
- Browse
- Reset to open
- Digest
- Dependencies
- ~~Export~~
- Get statistics
- Search
Mailing lists
Source code
Bugs
- Submit new
- Browse
- Reset to open
- Digest
- Dependencies
- ~~Export~~
- Get statistics
- Search
Tasks
- ~~Submit new~~
- Browse
- Reset to open
- Digest
- Dependencies
- ~~Export~~
- Get statistics
- Search
Patches
- ~~Submit new~~
- Browse
- Reset to open
- Digest
- Dependencies
- ~~Export~~
- Get statistics
- Search
News
- Browse
- Atom feed
- ~~Submit~~
- ~~Manage~~

bug #30093: Variable type (Signedness) of specification fields

Submitter:	Marco van de Voort <marcovje>
Submitted:	Wed 09 Jun 2010 09:38:56 AM UTC


Category:	None	Severity:	3 - Normal
Item Group:	None	Status:	None
Privacy:	Public	Assigned to:	None
Open/Closed:	Open

* Mandatory Fields

Add a New Comment Rich Markup

Wed 09 Jun 2010 09:38:56 AM UTC, original submission:

Many values in the spec are "dword" while signed values are assigned to them (usually -1 as special value).

This causes problems in FPC when people compile with extra runtime checks (that check ranges strictly). We can adjust the typing to signed (but that is a specification discrepancy), hence we decided to ask this upstream.

We can also disable checks for those units. (in theory we can also typecast each and every assignment but that is too painfull), but that is not so elegant.

Possible solutions: adapt types, or define the <0 cases not as -1 but as dword(-1) or $FFFFFFFF

Free Pascal mantis bug reference : 16669

Marco van de Voort <marcovje>

(Note: upload size limit is set to 16384 kB, after insertion of the required escape characters.)

Attach Files:


Comment:

No files currently attached

Depends on the following items: None found

Items that depend on this one: None found

Carbon-Copy List

-email is unavailable- added by marcovje (Submitted the item)

-email is unavailable- added by marcovje

There are 0 votes so far. Votes easily highlight which items people would like to see resolved in priority, independently of the priority of the item set by tracker managers.

Only logged-in users can vote.

Please enter the title of George Orwell's famous dystopian book (it's a date):

Follows 1 latest change.

Date	Changed by	Updated Field	Previous Value	=>	Replaced by
2010-06-09	marcovje	Carbon-Copy	-		Added marcovje

Unofficial CHM Specification - Bugs: bug #30093, Variable type (Signedness) of...

bug #30093: Variable type (Signedness) of specification fields

<a href="#postcomment">Post a Comment</a>

<a href="#discussion">Discussion</a>

<a href="#attached">Attached Files</a>

<a href="#dependencies">Dependencies</a>

<a href="#cc">Mail Notification Carbon-Copy List</a>

<a href="#votes">Votes</a>

<a href="#history">History</a>