[fpc-devel] RTTI interface & variant late binding issue (mORMot)

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 07.02.2015 um 12:14 schrieb Jonas Maebe:
> On 07/02/15 11:58, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
>> Just an idea: What about serializing TCGPara/TCGParalocation?
> 
> The main issue I see with that is that this format changes from time to
> time. I'll probably have to change it again to fully support the ppc64le
> ABI.
> 
> To me, the optimal solution would be to simply use libffi (you would
> only need logic to translate the rtti for the parameter types to libffi
> format, and it would automagically work for all platforms), but since
> that's an external dependency I guess that's not acceptable.

Well, the technical aspect is one thing, but its license is another issue. Violating it happens too
quick.

> I'm however
> definitely not looking forward to reimplementing parameter
> passing/loading and calling routines for all platforms again inside the rtl.
> 
> 
> Jonas
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