[fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

[Florian Klaempfl]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
>>>On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Kornel Kisielewicz wrote:
>>>
>>>>Florian Klaempfl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>- write a bcd classes
>>>>
>>>>BCD?
>>>
>>>Binary Coded Decimal. We urgently need a bcdfmt unit as in delphi.
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>I did not find any usable info about the bcdfmt.
> 
> 
> Searching for "Delphi precision tbcd" on google yields:
> 
> http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:97hnmm3AhNEJ:www.delphikingdom.com/asp/useranswers.asp%3Fid%3D47518+tbcd+delphi+precision&hl=en
> 
> which yields the type.
> 
> type
>   TBcd  = packed record
>     Precision: Byte;
>     SignSpecialPlaces: Byte;
>     Fraction: packed array [0..31] of Byte;
>   end;
> 
> 
>>What is the required interface for the TBCD objects?
>>Are they normal BCD (0-9) or Telephony BCD (0-9,a-c,*,#,filler) ?
>>(Google on TBCD took me to ASN.1)
> 
> 
> Normal I guess.
>  
> 
>>A page for info about bcdfmt was started on wiki
>>http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/BcdUnit
>>
>>Sorry I don't have a Delphi and I run on OS X.
> 
> 
> Do not look at delphi copyrighted source, but get info from public sources
> like helpfiles for download on Borlands FTP etc.
> 
> This should be enough to reconstruct a rough interface, details will then
> later be found by testing real delphi code.

The FreeCLX contains also an implementation though it's GPL while FPC libraries
are modified LGPL.