[fpc-pascal] The new Delphi 2010 RTTI

[Alex Shishkin]

10.01.2011 17:40, Jonas Maebe пишет:
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> On 10 Jan 2011, at 14:46, Alex Shishkin wrote:
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>> By the way despite the fact that static linking to external libraries 
>> will be impossible, but dynamic linking could be implemented. Anyway 
>> I understand that platform independence of code imposes certain 
>> restrictions and that restrictions impact on application design. F.e. 
>> interface to external platform dependent systems should be isolated 
>> in separate package (as I wrote about LCL and its widget sets). But I 
>> think it makes design better.
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> What you are proposing is something similar to Google Native Client 
> (http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/), except that they also added 
> code verification because it's intended for running native 
> applications downloaded from websites.
Interesting link. Thanks.
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> That is not directly related to packages, but rather to a completely 
> new run time environment with its own ABI, object format etc. 
object format is the main question as for now.
> The result of having such an environment is indeed that you can have 
> compiled binary code that is portable across different operating 
> systems, but that's outside the scope of adding packages support to FPC.
OK
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> You first have to define such a platform (or you can take the Google 
> Native Code platform), then add RTL and compiler support to FPC for 
> that platform, and subsequently any program or package compiled for 
> that platform by FPC will run on it. Reinventing such a platform and 
> embedding it in FPC and its run time library falls outside the scope 
> of the FPC project.
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Yes, my implementation of packages planed to be just a platform from the 
compiler side. So then "native" support of packages will be added in FPC.
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> Jonas
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