[fpc-pascal] Nano-x

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Thu Jul 20 14:13:14 CEST 2006


(snip water under the bridge)
 
> As for your arguments:
> 
> You are 100% right that it may be a good thing to have a central place which 
> somehow regulates access to libc; It will make things clearer and more 
> maintainable. However, if you want to position it like that, I do think 
> that it should be handled like that: The unit which provides the correct 
> glue to the C library, which we can say is the preferred way of linking 
> to the C library. I would even go as far as saying that in this case, 
> the program/library stub code can be placed in this unit. It would remove 
> a lot of code which is now in the compiler.
 
What compiler code exactly do you mean? Cprt stuff?

> It should, however, not be positioned as the replacement of {$linklib C}; 
> This decision should always be made by the programmer. It is up to us to
> decide what to do with the units we distribute by default.

That + the formal advise to do it that way, with the reasons I posted
earlier is fine with me.

> So, my conclusion is that we should take the following actions:

> 2. Possibly extend it with some constants that describe properties of the
> libc in use.

Agree (also with the other points). However do you have examples of this?



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