Free Pascal full changelog

Free Pascal 3.2.2 is a minor release of the 3.2.x fixes branch. As such, it contains mostly fixes of bugs discovered in the previous version, plus some updates for included packages. In this case a new target was also backported from trunk.

- 0025505: [Database] "-:param" form SQL text parsed incorrected (Reinier Olislagers) - resolved.
- 0024007: [Compiler] Bug in bitpacked arrays access (Jonas Maebe) - resolved.
- 0023962: [Compiler] When passing a packed record to a overridden, virtual method the method argument contains incorrect values (Jonas Maebe) - resolved.
- 0025140: [FCL] ptcgraph.CloseGraph works incorrect (Nikolay Nikolov) - resolved.
- 0019610: [RTL] TStringList.delimitedtext doesn't respect quotechar (Marco van de Voort) - resolved.
- 0022465: [Packages] Redefine of QWord as Int64 in packages/winunits-jedi/src/jwawindns.pas (Florian) - resolved.
- 0023290: [RTL] FileSetDate does not work on directories (Michael Van Canneyt) - resolved.
- 0023283: [Packages] Wrong bit shift in ListView_GetCheckState (Marco van de Voort) - resolved.
- 0020484: [Packages] NetDB unable to resolve DNS when application was launched without network (Michael Van Canneyt) - resolved.

# Compiler:

* Improvements and fixes for the ARM architecture

# Packages:

* New package fpindexer (indexing engine)
* Support for observer pattern added to fcl-base (and base classes in RTL)
* Lots and lots fixes and improvements for fcl-db
o Support for JSON dataset added among others
* Fixes and improvements for fcl-passrc (and fpdoc)
* Updates for PTCPas and gtk2
* fpmkunit improvements (better support for future switch to fpmake)
* Several fixes for x11
* Several fixes for winunits (and winceunits)

# Platforms:

* Improvements to the NativeNT target (newly introduced as alpha in 2.6.0)
* Many fixes for OpenBSD and NetBSD (considered in beta state now)
* Internal ELF writer supported for more BSD t

- 0021008: [Documentation] PNG image is not embedded in CHM documentation (Michael Van Canneyt) - resolved.
- 0021029: [Compiler] wrong range-check errors reported with INLINE-functions (Jonas Maebe) - resolved.
- 0021058: [RTL] Function CeRapiUninit in rapi.pp always fails (correction included) (Marco van de Voort) - resolved.
- 0016345: [Packages] fcl-passrc cannot handle macros (Michael Van Canneyt) - resolved.
- 0021005: [Compiler] linking a pascal program for arm-gba fails (Florian) - resolved.
- 0021034: [Compiler] Since SVN revision 19977 bootstrapping 32-bit compiler fails. (Joost van der Sluis) - resolved.
- 0021003: [Packages] make packages fails. dummy include files are not found. (Florian) - resolved.
- 0020998: [Compiler] int64 (emulated) division by powers of 2 does not compile to shift (Florian) - resolved.
- 0021013: [Packages] Add unit glext to be compiled for win64 (Florian) - resolved.

- 0016171: [Packages] error when compiling packages (custfcgi) with -Cr on Windows (Jonas Maebe) - resolved.
- 0016158: [RTL] InternalExit crashes in DLL, if DllMain is called with reason DLL_PROCESS_DETACH more than once (Marco van de Voort) - resolved.
- 0015845: [Packages] XQueryKeymap function declaration (in xlib.pp) seems to be wrong (Marco van de Voort) - resolved.
- 0015313: [FCL] tMemoryStream limit to 32b (Florian Klämpfl) - resolved.
- 0015190: [FCL] Extend CompareMemRange of unit sysutils to use PtrUInt for Length (Florian Klämpfl) - resolved.
- 0015062: [RTL] Please remove DEFAULT_GUI_FONT from Windows CE RTL (Yury Sidorov) - resolved.
- 0014605: [Packages] SmsSendMessage function from SMS.pp unit is declared wrong (Marco van de Voort) - resolved.
- 0014086: [Packages] DBus interface is outdated (Sergei Gorelkin) - resolved.
- 0014075: [RTL] ipc_sys not working (Jonas Maebe) - resolved.
- 0013363: [RTL] bug ipcctl() (Jonas Maebe) - resolved.

A new release 2.4.2 is available from our sites. 2.4.2 is the first fixes release from the 2.4 series. Improvements, amongst others:

* Delphi 2006 like for..in support
* Support for sealed and abstract class modifiers,
* new targets
o 64-bit FreeBSD (x86_64)
* Many improvements and fixes to the XML, database and CHM packages
* Long term bug in OS/2 implementation of unit Video finally fixed which among others allows inclusion of the text-mode IDE (without debugger) for this platform as part of the distribution again.
* Many compiler bugfixes and more than half an year of library updates (since 2.4.0)

Downloads are available from the download page (mirrors should follow soon).

· [IDE] fix the single line glitch issue in XCode syntax highlighting (Jonas Maebe)
· [RTL] SysReAllocMem can corrupt the heap (Micha Nelissen)
· [RTL] SysGetMem_Var never reuses a perfect matching block (Micha Nelissen)
· [Compiler] Updates of German error message files in 2.4.0-RC1 (Marco van de Voort)
· [Documentation] TList.Extract does not, and should not, Notify with lnDeleted (Michael Van Canneyt)
· [Packages] x86_64 fp-units-gfx deb package has wrong content (Abou Al Montacir)
· [Utilities] Patch to fpcmake to consider Haiku as a unix like platform (Marco van de Voort)
· [Packages] For FPC 2.4-rc1 sqlite3 stubs has sqlite3_result_cint insteady of sqlite3_result_int (Marco van de Voort)
· [Documentation] Various grammar & spelling mistakes in ref.tex file (Michael Van Canneyt)
· [Compiler] Loading FPC dylib fails at runtime (Jonas Maebe)
· [Compiler] Bus Error when linking to dylib with Snow Leopard (Jonas Maebe)

· 0013148: [Packages] FreeBSD pThreads sem_timedwait lack (Marco van de Voort) resolved.
· 0013077: [RTL] win64: MEMORY_BASIC_INFORMATION.RegionSize should be T_SIZE (Marco van de Voort) resolved.
· 0013065: [Compiler] FPCAPACHE not exact in fpc.cfg (Jonas Maebe) resolved.
· 0011468: [Database Components] It seems bookmarks are broken for TFixedFormatDataSet. (Joost van der Sluis) resolved.
· 0012856: [Compiler] ressource can't be used (Yury Sidorov) resolved.
· 0012514: [FCL] PasZlib fails (either corrupt output or crash) when gzipping certain files (Marco van de Voort) resolved.
· 0012809: [Database Components] Streaming error with TField.FieldKind (Joost van der Sluis) resolved.
· 0012370: [Compiler] Compilation of {$I dir1dir2x.pas } kind statements is not handled consistently by FPC . (Marco van de Voort) resolved.
· 0012629: [Compiler] DLL becomes unloadable without line-numbering information (Yury Sidorov) resolved.