[fpc-devel] Unexpexted result of FindFirst with 2.2.4

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Hi Jonas

I''l stay with fpc 2.2.5 for the time being.

I have noticed that Lazarus (Linux version) has downgraded from fpc 2.2.5 to 
2.2.4 in their daily snapshots though.

Thanks
Nino

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On Sunday 10 May 2009 15:29:39 Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 10 May 2009, at 15:10, fpclist at silvermono.co.za wrote:
> > On Sunday 10 May 2009 14:41:06 Jonas Maebe wrote:
> >> On 21 Apr 2009, at 16:47, Stefan Kisdaroczi wrote:
> >>> FindFirst from fpc 2.2.4 returns zero (file found) and an empty Name
> >>> if I search for files in a empty directory.
> >>> With fpc 2.2.2 FindFirst returns -1 as expected.
> >>>
> >>> Im using Debian Lenny (i386) and installed the 2.2.4 *.deb's from
> >>> the freepascal ftp site.
> >>>
> >>> The following program is quiet with fpc 2.2.2, with 2.2.4 the output
> >>> is:
> >>> Found:  Len=0
> >>>
> >>> Can someone please confirm this. Thank you.
> >>
> >> I can confirm this behaviour, but it has been fixed already in 2.3.1
> >> in the mean time.
> >
> > I'm using fpc 2.2.5 Linux (2009-03-06). Seems to be working okay in
> > respect to
> > above.
>
> That would be quite strange, since the bug was (I think) introduced in
> 2.2.x on 2008-11-14, and the fix has not been merged to 2.2.5.
>
> > I'm busy downloading the fpc 2.2.4 stable as we speak. Should I hold
> > the upgrade?
>
> In general, going from 2.2.5 to 2.2.4 would be considered a downgrade
> rather than an upgrade (although 2.2.4 was released after 2009-03-06
> and a security fix was merged into 2.2.4 after that date). No changes
> related to findfirst/findnext were done anymore though.
>
>
> Jonas
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