[fpc-pascal] re: thanks for major signal handling fix

[Jonas Maebe]

On 20 May 2009, at 22:13, Micha Nelissen wrote:

> Jonas Maebe wrote:
>> On 20 May 2009, at 22:01, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>>> The problem you have right now is that the program and each of  
>>> your libraries each contain their own copy of the exception class,  
>>> and therefore do not recognise (Pascal) exceptions raised by any  
>>> of the others.
>> Well, that and the fact that moreover each library/program contains  
>> its own exception stack rather than a single shared one (although  
>> that could
>
> Aren't both problems solved by using the same RTL binary code (in  
> library form)?

Yes, that's exactly what those packages are, afaik: http://wiki.freepascal.org/packages

I also think that ELF-style dynamic libraries are "natively" quite  
close already to the packages concept (unlike Windows dll's or Mac OS  
X shared libraries), but I don't know whether it's enough. And at  
least compiling the (linux) rtl into a shared library currently does  
not work: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=12492 (and I think if  
you'd solve those problems, there would be others).


Jonas