[fpc-pascal] The new Delphi 2010 RTTI

[Dimitri Smits]

----- "michael vancanneyt" <michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be> schreef:
> > My solution, in short,  is that packages should have OS independent
> interface 
> > to RTL built into executable visible to packages as RTL built as c
> package 
> > (with is a bridge to real RTL).
> 
> I understood that. Assuming you can make this interface (which I
> don't
> believe), your solution is still not realistic:
> 
> And how will you make a package that uses a os-specific function OS
> independent ? 
> (for instance, a package with a control that uses a WinAPI call.)
> 
> So a package with the LCL is by definition impossible.
> 
> Like I said, your proposal requires that we emulate all OSes on all
> other OSes.

I think he means a hybrid of the old 'overlay' loadable code.

and I also think he means something like:
- if you want to have a "package" for a 386 cpu, then you only have to compile it once
- you can "link" in your code regardless of os, as long as it is a 386 cpu with the same code

ofcourse I cannot agree more on the 'use what the os gives you'. ???.dll/lib???.so

what I don't understand is the remark on "windows dll is a pe executable and linux .so's are how packages are supposed to be". Anybody can clarify that statement?

kind regards,
Dimitri Smits