Archive for October 2008

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Weird enum values in shared modules – a Codegear Rad Studio new default compiler setting

I have worked in Borland / CodeGear / Embarcadero (whatever you call it now) C++ and Delphi since Delphi v1 (16bit) / Borland C++ Builder v3 were first released. Over the years I would periodically be tasked with upgrading products from one version of Borland Compilers to another. Today was a very awkward moment as [...]

The New Reality

Two years ago I wrote this entry, and today I came to understand what I call the “new reality”.
It all started at 6 am Wednesday morning October 22nd 2008. I had prepared for another day of work via the long commute into town (some things don’t change). This time the engine sputtered a bit and [...]

Icons of Evolution

Our family has been going through a series on evolution. This one we checked out from our local libray called “Icons of Evolution” by Cold Water Media showed a very interesting perspective. I did not know the pressure that exists at the school board and government levels. There are really two aspects in the evolution [...]

Codegear Rad Studio 2007 – Error: Unresolved external ‘Sysutils::EDivByZero::’

When compiling a Codegear (used to be Borland) C++ Builder project you may see errors like this from command line builds that you don’t seem to get in the IDE. Likely you have project files that were converted from BDS2006 or older and that is the cause of the problem. At some point in time [...]