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

[Sven Barth]

On 07.02.2015 13:54, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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> On Sat, 7 Feb 2015, Jonas Maebe wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Nevertheless, Florian's proposal seems to me like the optimal solution.
>
> As far as I can see the compiler just needs to simply write a small
> block with the needed info in the generated executable. The RTL just
> needs to match this.
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> That this changes from time to time, I consider much less of a problem.
> The .ppu files also change regularly, that is just how things are...
>
> As soon as a new platform appears you need to wait for libffi etc;
> the correct version needs to be installed and whatnot. I doubt this will
> cause less problems.

Considering that we aren't the fastest to implement new platforms I 
don't think that this will be much of a problem.

Looking at their site I noticed however that there are a few platforms 
that we support that they don't. For example m68k-amiga, i8086-msdos, 
arm-wince and some of the more exotic targets that we have (GBA, NDS, 
Wii for example).

So in the end a manager approach as Jonas suggested might be the best 
approach. Then we can for now implement the main platforms using libffi 
and implement full FPC ones one at a time.
Of course we need to assure that all necessary information can be 
provided to the manager and if that should mean that we'll need to 
divert from Delphi's RTTI format more then so be it.

Regards,
Sven