Author Archives: Andreas Hausladen

When I work on my IDE plugins I constantly need to debug the IDE. To make my live a lot easier I wrote an IDE plugin that adds another symbol resolver to the Delphi Debugger, so the debugger can use the *.jdbg files and show the actual function names (including line numbers) in the call… Read More: Debugging the RAD Studio IDE »

The DDevExtensions 2.85 and the DFMCheck 1.6 are now available for Delphi 10.3 Rio. DDevExtensions Changelog: Added: Support for Delphi 10.3 Rio Added: Use Unit dialog option “Every unit on a single line” Improved: UnitSelector Dialog in Delphi 2009 opens much faster Fixed: Structure-View search dropdown had a max height of 2 items DDevExtensions Name IDE Version… Read More: DDevExtensions and DFMCheck released for Delphi 10.3 Rio »

There was an off-by-one bug in the Win64 Compiler Speed Pack for XE2 since the release of version 6.0. This caused the XE2 dcc64 compiler to generate defective code that caused crashes in the created executable file. The off-by-one bug only affected XE2. When I began writing the patches I used XE4 and all Win64… Read More: IDE Fix Pack 6.3.2 for XE2 only »

The new IDE Fix Pack 6.3 adds some IDE fixes and makes DFM reading a little bit faster due to the usage of buffers on the stack instead of the TBytes heap allocations with unnecessary FillChar calls that were introduced with XE3. The compiler option extension -x-fpr also got a new feature. If a function… Read More: IDE Fix Pack 6.3 released »

Delphi 10.2 Tokyo changed how the files for units that are explicitly specified in the project file (dpr/dpk) are found. The IDE Fix Pack’s directory file search cache still made assumptions that were correct in Delphi 2009-10.1 Seattle but aren’t in Tokyo. This could result in an “program or unit xxx recursively uses itself” error… Read More: IDE Fix Pack 6.2 »

A small update for IDE Fix Pack that adds support for the just released Delphi 10.2.2. Added: Support for Delphi 10.2 Update 2 Added: Fix for unnecessary temporary variable if an empty open array argument is part of a function call (Delphi 2009-10.1) Download: Name IDE Version File Size Downloads Added IDE Fix Pack 6.5.1… Read More: IDE Fix Pack 6.1.2 (supports Delphi 10.2.2) »

While debugging the String4D code to hunt down a bug in the CompilerSpeedPack, I saw a lot of CopyRecord/FinalizeRecord calls with a try/finally that the compiler generated. If you have a record with managed fields (string, interface, …) and use it as a function return type the Delphi compiler will change the function into a… Read More: Technical the same but different generated code »

With the release of IDE Fix Pack 6.1, the Compiler Speed Pack not only makes the compiler compile faster but it can now also change the generated code, something that IDE Fix Pack has never done before. For this, new command line compiler options are introduced. They all start with “-x” (eXtension) followed by the… Read More: IDE Fix Pack 6.1 released »

The new IDE Fix Pack version 6.0 is available. It supports Delphi 10.2 RTM and 10.2 Update 1. And after over a year of being in BETA testing without any bug reports, I also included all the Win64 compiler performance optimizations. Thus the jump to version 6.0 can finally be done as they make the… Read More: IDE Fix Pack 6.0 released – dcc64 and 10.2 Update… »