[fpc-devel] NowUTC in the RTL

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Fri Dec 9 17:02:24 CET 2011


In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
 
> > Or maybe, the question should be the opposite, why not? Why shouldn't such
> > peripheral calls NOT be taken from libc?
> 
> Because you don't have to link to libc when you have a syscall?

True. You just have to maintain the syscall. And polish away the cross
platform issues. For core functionality that is worth the trouble (since it
is also quickly noticed when it fails), for this IMHO not.



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