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

[Jonas Maebe]

On 21 Jul 2010, at 11:28, Joost van der Sluis wrote:

> At this moment the 'safecall' calling convention on Linux is undefined.
> It does exist but has no real meaning. (In fact it is just stdcall, the
> exception-handling code is only added on Windows by the compiler)
> 
> Is it an idea to change the 'safecall' convention on Linux/i386 to be
> 'cdecl + hidden exception handling' ?

See http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=16685 and the linked discussion from June on the fpc-pascal list.


Jonas