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

[Henry Vermaak]

On 22 June 2010 16:18, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
> Marco van de Voort schrieb:
>> In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
>>>> The cure is ten times more difficult than the problem. (namely that the
>>> That seems quite clear.
>>>
>>>> Libc breaks often, but I'm sure that a native lib will break much more
>>> I certainly haven't experienced this libc that breaks often.
>>
>> Keep in mind that that is defined in the context of cross-distro
>> compatibility of the binary interface.
>
> At least according to Linus, the kernel api/syscall interface will never
> break.

Never say never, things will be added, but not taken away.  There are
some very old programs that still run fine on new kernels.  I've read
that someone has programs compiled for a 0.9 kernel that runs fine on
2.6.

fpc also proves this point by running on a wide range of kernels.