[fpc-devel] OS/2 and DLLs

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Tomas Hajny wrote:
> On 17 Dec 14, at 15:38, rpzrpzrpz at gmail.com wrote:

>> Hopefully, FPC core maintainers are not distracted by the legacy support.

My philosophy is that supporting multiple platforms- different word 
sizes, alignment requirements and so on- is a good way to flush out 
problems.

> With all the respect to your opinions: If you want to discuss 
> potential reasons for using various operating systems (and/or 
> continuing support of such operating systems in FPC), I suggest that 
> you move that discussion to fpc-other. For now, let's stick to a 
> reminder that the whole FPC is a hobby project.

I second that. However I'd add that I do so advisedly: I used OS/2 for 
quite a few years and I still feel unwell whenever I see it mentioned.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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