[fpc-other] [fpc-devel] OS/2 and DLLs

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Tomas Hajny wrote:

> Switching to fpc-other as a more appropriate space: I believe that
> although my time available for FPC is quite limited, my activities related
> to OS/2 target in FPC in the last few years show more than clearly that I
> want to continue support of this target regardless of the number of users
> lower compared to some other targets as long as my work helps at least
> someone. In this context, I'd like to thank everybody who expressed his
> interest in this target.
> 
> Note that I don't aim to convince people that they should stop using their
> preferred platform and switch to OS/2, and I won't participate in any kind
> of advocacy discussion about why OS/2 should continue to be used, etc.

Noting somebody's earlier comment about the lack of DLL support being 
due to a linker limitation, I think this is unfortunate since when OS/2 
came out the fact that the binary formats were well-documented and 
supported by at least two linkers (MS and TopSpeed) was a significant 
advantage.

I presume that the early enthusiasm had largely dissipated by the time 
IBM started pushing it as a 32-bit OS, with a new binary format etc.

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

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