[fpc-devel] Re: Mac G3 and FPC

[Florian Klaempfl]

Jonas Maebe wrote:

> 
> On 18 nov 2004, at 09:05, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> 
>> Otherwise, depending on the OS, it will cause alignment exceptions or (if
>> the OS "fixes" it) possible performance detoriation.
> 
> 
> I think NetBSD and maybe some other obscure OSes are the only ones that 
> absolutely need this. Under Mac OS X, the performance loss of not using 
> -dppc603 will be minimal, because the RTL changes that this causes are 
> overridden by libc routines. The impact of the changes in the compiler 
> is much smaller.
> 

I guess the bigger problem is to get a native (carbon based) lazarus 
running :)