[fpc-devel] Fpsigprocmask

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Martin Schreiber said:
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> On Wednesday 20 January 2010 17:54:33 Michael Schnell wrote:
> > On 01/20/2010 02:12 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> > > You should not use it.
> >
> > Martin, why is your code better ?
> >
> > I don't see the difference. You just seem to have used the same coder as
> > in libc.pp in your own source file....
> >
> I copied the bits used by MSEgui, fixed the bugs which affected MSEgui and 
> made it working on x86_64-linux. libc version compatibility is not so bad 
> IMHO.

That's still no reason to not use the supported routines. One can even
simply recompile the RTL to have the normal routines use libc (a feature
that is in production for e.g. OS X)

As far as I can see, providing own headers is just a compatibility hazard
with no real benefit.