Just pushed to my fork of DelphiCodeCoverage a few enhancements to make it more AI-friendly (I’m not sure if the original repo is still maintained).
The key addition one is a new “Code Coverage Gaps” .ccg format that is optimized for AI consumption, and can save a lot of tokens ($$$) when you task an AI with improving unit test coverage.. (more…)
After years of beta, the 23.1.23 version of SamplingProfiler is available from its downloads & changelog page.
The download ZIP includes both 32 & 64bit executables.
The main change since the last version is that the code to detect Delphi browse paths was rewritten to accommodate future (unreleased) Delphi versions… as long as the registry names and keys follow the current logic. The previous version supported all Delphi versions, but you had to manually specify browse paths.
Recently noticed DelphiCodeCoverage had a new home on GitHub, with several updates that make it stable. I had been it in a previous incarnation to assess DWScript test coverage, and help pick which aspects of the engine were in need of extra tests.
The DWScript tests can be quite heavy on exceptions, sub-processes and multithreading. The tests go after checking all things that should fail do fail as they should. That was a bit too much stress for the previous versions, which would occasionally crash. I am happy to say those issues are gone from the current version of DelphiCodeCoverage!
When a double is neither greater nor lesser, is it equal ?
This is assumed in some implementations like for RTL’s VarCompareValue and other function that return the result of the comparison.
In those function you can see code like (more…)
Just pushed a few changes to the DWScript repository for compatibility with the just released Delphi 11 Alexandria.
The only change required was related to a fix of the Delphi compiler, which now properly has integer overflow checks controlled by $OVERFLOWCHECKS while they were previously controlled by $RANGECHECKS.
I also added support for the Delphi 11 dialect for binary literals (starting with %). DWScript already supported binary literals with the “0b” prefix since 2012 (as in C), I had been hoping the % symbol would not be sacrificed for this purpose, but oh well. (more…)
After battling for half a day with that subtle bug, I am posting the workaround and analysis here, in case other stumble on it.
The issue lies with the TWICImage class, which encapsulates Microsoft Windows Imaging Component, and can be triggered in multi-threaded usage scenarios, particularly in services.
Just a quick notice that the DWScript source code has begun a transition to Delphi 10.2.3 up from Delphi XE.
The goal is to target Win32 and Win64 compilers, mobile platforms and Delphi Linux are currently not in the scope.
Last week www.beginend.net was launched with the goal of aggregating Pascal and Delphi blogs in a mobile-friendly, secure website with a minimalist UI.
The website is Pascal-Powered: the server is Delphi-compiled DWScript Sample Web server, the server-side page generation and APIs are handled by DWS and an SQLite database, and the client-side is a SmartPascal application compiled on-the-fly to JavaScript by the server.
A new syntax-highlighting editor has been unleashed upon the Delphi world by Lasse Rautiainen, it’s named TBCEditor, and it is quite full-featured, clean, stable and fast.
The main source code is TBCEditor on github and supports Delphi XE4-XE8, I have made a fork TBCEditorXE on bitbucket which supports XE.
A trivial way to turn a case-sensitive String hash function into a case-insensitive one is to to pass a lower-case (or upper-case) version of the String.
However, in our days of Unicode strings, this is not innocuous…