[fpc-pascal] FPC_ARMEL system calls

[Florian Klaempfl]

Luca Olivetti schrieb:
> [Beware, I'm neither an arm expert nor an fpc internals one, that's why 
> I'm asking instead of patching, patching that I wouldn't know how to do 
> anyway].
> 
> Due to my (insofar) failed experiment to get an arm-eabi compiler, I 
> took a look at where FPC_ARMEL is used.
> 
> FPC_ARMEL is apparently only used in compiler/systems/i_linux.pas and 
> compiler/systems/t_linux.pas.
> The latter is the recent change to use the correct dynamic linker, and 
> the former to change the alignment of some structures (required by the 
> eabi specification).

Indeed, i_linux sets e.g. the calling conventions to eabi and this is 
what the compiler/rtl check further one.

> But eabi shouldn't also use a different syscall conversion[*]? Or does 
> it use libc with whatever calling convention it is using (though it 
> doesn't seem the case)?
> 
> 
> [*]I think it can use the "old" one, albeit with some performance 
> penalization
> 
> Bye