[fpc-devel] OS aware RTL proposal

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Ales Katona wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> 
> > How does this make it a reason ?
> > 
> > libfprtl will always be specific to the distribution it was compiled on.
> > If tuned, it should be tuned to that system. 
> > Just like libc or any library close to the system is. Don't try to copy a
> > binary libc.so from a SuSE to a Fedora system, it won't work. Just like
> > you shouldn't copy kernel32.dll from Windows XP to Windows 2003.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> I don't think this is feasible. It would be if you'd get it into those
> distroes but people will want to take their own < 1mb libfprtl.so with them
> rather than copy 30mb fpc on various distroes with their apps.

That is exactly my point: 
this <1mb libfprtl can only contain low-level stuff
which can be expected to be the same on all distros...

> 
> Ofcourse the question is, do we want to utilize libfprtl.so at all?
> How do we want to cope with new features in OSes?

We don't. 
We just make the interface available, that's it. 
It shouldn't be used by default in libfprtl.

Michael.