[fpc-devel] Inlining problem and LEB128

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Mon Jun 24 07:19:00 CEST 2019


Am 24.06.2019 um 01:02 schrieb J. Gareth Moreton:
> That's a point, true.  I've been for openness a lot lately, and one 
> doesn't normally distribute the PPU files with a closed-source 
> project, but I guess for those programs that need compiling on Linux 
> before they can be run, it's not very desirable if the PPU files 
> contain information on, say, a licence key algorithm.
It's not only projects aka excutables, but also components that can be 
used with e.g. Lazarus. There *do* exist commercial, closed source 
component providers that only provide the PPU (and maybe an interface 
only unit so that Lazarus' code completion works).

Regards,
Sven


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