[lazarus] Problems running Lazarus

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 00:37:05 +1000  prologic at shortcircuit.net.au (James
Mills) wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 12:22:14PM +0100, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:26:03 +1000  prologic at shortcircuit.net.au (James
> > Mills) wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I recently just grabbed the CVS sources and tried to compile lazarus:
> > > 
> > > (gdb) run
> > > Starting program:
> > > /home/prologic/programming/temp/lazarus/lazarus/lazarus 
> > > TApplication.HandleException Range check error
> > 
> > You compiled lazarus with range checking on. I added some explicit type
> > casts. I don't know, how to fix all the range check warnings nice.
> > 
> > For example, I need a type for the TStream.Size. Any ideas?
> 
> I compiled Lazarus with the default make options.
> ie: make
> 
> I notice then that the default make options are with Range Checking on.
> I will try and recompile with them turned off.
> 
> As for your question, I have no idea at this stange as I don't
> understand the code well enough (but that may change) :)

Ok, that was a very short mail.

The range checking is probably from your global fpc.cfg. Range checking is a
good thing and lazarus should run and compile fine, but it does not. :(

Most of the range check warnings comes from lines like

MyInteger:=AStream.Size; 

Because TStream.Size is declared with ifdefs, it can be different types. It
would help, if there would be a type for this. So, I can fix the range
warnings without evil ifdefs.
I will add one to lcltype and hope that someday it can be replaced by
something in the fcl/rtl.


THe otherthing is ColorRef. Is there any reason, why it is declared as
cardinal?


Mattias