[fpc-pascal]Graphics cards, VGALIB

[Tomas Hajny]

On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 15:06:30 +0200, 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."

The problem is exactly that we have to link C libraries in this case where
such namespaces aren't available.

Tomas