[fpc-devel] FPC and Windows Phone 8

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 03/11/2014 03:10 AM, Vsevolod Alekseyev wrote:
>>   I've tried several assembly sequences that would branch and switch
>> mode; they all would cause an exception.
> Supposedly the interrupt code of the OS does not save and restore the 
> "running in Thumb mode" flag. So you are out of luck with non-Thumb code.
> 
> This is obviously a shortcoming due to the arrogance of the creator of 
> the OS, thoughtlessly castrating the high-performance feature of the 
> processor.
> 
> This strictly recommends not to use this OS.

I don't know whether this is news to anybody: if not my apologies for 
adding noise to the thread.

Elsewhere, I see a number of experienced (ex-)Delphi programmers 
complaining that

!! It seems Microsoft has changed the functionality of GetVersionEx
!! with Windows 8.1 to no longer return the accurate operating system
! ...and instead shows the version of the operating system that it
! thinks your program wants to hear, rather like a child answering a
! tricky question ('Have you tidied your room?). Fabulous.

There's more in that vein, including some tentative workarounds, but 
this appears to be a potential portability pitfall.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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