[fpc-pascal] Carbon: i386 and PPC API differences

[EarMaster - Bent Olsen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fpc-pascal-bounces at lists.freepascal.org [mailto:fpc-pascal-
> bounces at lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Jonas Maebe
> Sent: 29. september 2008 16:26
> To: FPC-Pascal users discussions
> Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Carbon: i386 and PPC API differences
> 
> "const inDescription: ComponentDescription" is wrong, because FPC does
> not guarantee that this will be passed by reference (especially in
> case of C imports, because in C "const" also means "pass by value").
> Either use a pointer type, or use "var" instead. There is no constvar
> or similar specifier.
> 
> Also add {$packrecords C} to your source to ensure that the records
> are properly packed, and translate "unsigned long" using the "culong"
> type from the ctypes unit rather than using uint32 ("unsigned long" is
> not the same as uint32 on all platforms, e.g. it's different on 64 bit
> Mac OS X).

Thanks for the input, Jonas, and I went through all the declarations and
found that AUNode from the AUGraph.h was wrongly specified as "Integer", and
should be SInt32 as used in the C sample.

That did a huge difference, and the sample is now works.

Thanks again,
Normann

> Jonas