[fpc-pascal] fpc and boehm

[blackdog]

Hi Daniël

Thanks for the quick reply. I don't necessarily want fpc to interact
with boehm directly by redirecting the memory manager calls, however now
that you've mentioned it could be a solution, my question is should
an fpc .so be a direct replacement for a C .so? Can you think of any
reason when that would not be the case - apart from bad translation of
header files. For example, neko uses dlopen with RTLD_LAZY to load
the .so, does fpc expect RTLD_NOW or anything like that?

Thanks again

bd

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:53:12 +0200 (CEST)
Daniël Mantione <daniel.mantione at freepascal.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> Op Sun, 26 Aug 2007, schreef blackdog:
> 
> > 
> > Hi List
> > 
> > This is my first post to the list and I'm new to fpc too. 
> > 
> > I'm interested in using fpc to create .so/.dll for the Neko
> > virtual machine (http://www.nekovm.org), instead of using C for the
> > same task. So that means translating header files. I've done some
> > of this and had some success but I'm getting some random problems
> > occurring.
> > 
> > Neko uses the boehm garbage collector, so my question is, does
> > fpc play well with boehm? My assumption has been that fpc
> > could be used as a straight replacement for C.
> 
> I'm not aware of any uses in practice, but I expect it will work.
> FPC's memory manager is repleacable by means of procvars, so you have
> a lot of flexibility.
> 
> Daniël


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