[fpc-devel] Threading support and C library under Linux/Unix

[Henry Vermaak]

On 22 June 2010 13:13, Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:
>
> Of course you can avoid using the library, do the stuff in Pascal and
> directly access the Kernel API, but this might be dangerous in case the
> API might be modified some time in the future or if it's different with
> different archs (e.g. some archs don't provide FUTEX).

No, the syscall api is very stable, so minimum maintenance is
required.  Which architectures don't provide futex?  I'm not aware of
any.

Henry