[fpc-pascal]Graphics cards, VGALIB

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Eduardo Morras wrote:

> At 11:19 06/09/2004, you wrote:
>
> >On 6 sep 2004, at 09:28, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> >
> >>>Especially in case the linker supports multiple namespaces and
> >>>one package needs symbol X from library A, and another one from library
> >>>B.
> >>
> >>There is always some directed graph in dependancies that can be translated
> >>into weights. But true, this kind of problems make having one weightfile
> >>a bit difference (since e.g. Mac OS X will probably be different).
> >
> >No, it's not per system, but per package/program. Suppose there are
> >libraries A and B which both export symbol X. One program needs symbol X
> >from library A, and another one from library B, but both need both
> >libraries A and B for other symbols.
> >
> >You then simply cannot assign a weight to A and B so that it works
> >correctly in all cases.
> >
> >
> >Jonas
>
> I always thought that fpc supports a.x and b.x for differenciating them,
> but never used it. Perhaps even a type definition in your program as
>
> type
>          Graphic = a.x;
>          Incognite = b.x;
>
> allows you use both without any problem.
>
> P.S. From freepascal.com/advantage.html; Is this still true??
>
> "Each unit has it's own identifiers In Pascal you never need to worry about
> polluting the namespace, like in C where an identifier needs to be unique
> accross the entire program. No, in Pascal each unit gets it's own namespace
> and that's very relaxed."

This is still correct.

But it is NOT true for imported C library variables. The above statement
is for pure pascal identifiers.

Michael.