[fpc-devel] Output flush on pipes

[Vincent Snijders]

Tomas Hajny wrote:
> On 14 May 06, at 8:54, Vincent Snijders wrote:
> 
>>Daniël Mantione wrote:
>>
>>>Op Sun, 14 May 2006, schreef Martin Schreiber:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Since some time FPC doesn't  flush output on pipes after writeln.
>>>>On linux I can use a pseudo terminal, what can I do on win32 to get flushed 
>>>>output from FPC into the message window of MSEide?
>>>
>>>
>>>About flushing the output, I think it is impossible to receive the output 
>>>interactively currently, it will output in bursts. You should still be 
>>>able to receive the output, though. If you want to receive it 
>>>interactively, I think we can modify the compiler to flush after each 
>>>message. But again, I do not recommend this approach.
>>
>>What I would appreciate, is that the output I get remains in the same 
>>order as it is generated. So, first the compiler saying linking and then 
>>the linker giving error messages. See 
>>http://www.freepascal.org/bugs/showrec.php3?ID=4996
> 
> 
> I guess that this should be easy to fix by always 
> flushing Output before launching external 
> utilities. Am I overlooking something? If not, I 
> can probably add this.

I  think that is indeed what needs to be done.

Vincent