[fpc-devel] Safecall on Linux (and other unices?)

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> > Is it an idea to change the 'safecall' convention on Linux/i386 to be
> > 'cdecl + hidden exception handling' ?
> 
> I think yes. Since xpcom is the only framework I heard of that uses it,
> I think it is the logical thing to do.
> 
> If later we discover that there are variants of 'safecall' on non-windows, 
> we can change it.

Agree, trunk is not going gold anyway before the new crossplatform delphi
comes out, so if that changes things, we can adapt.

That leaves Paul's correct comments that it would we wise to look what Kylix
does.