[fpc-pascal] FPC with case insensitive file system under Linux

[Sven Barth]

Am 28.02.2012 10:03, schrieb Noah Silva:
> Hi Sven,
>
> It seems that since NT is the only remaining Windows kernel now that it
> might make sense to use NT functions in (for example) the normal
> SysUtils library for more efficient implementations - do you think there
> is any strong reason not to?
>
> You have to figure there are two layers of thunking going on now:
> 1. System/SysUtils -> Win32
> 2. Win32 -> NT.

The NT API is not documented and I don't think it's worth the hazzle 
(working with an undocumented API) to improve performance a little bit. 
The Win32 API is THE API if you target Windows, so we shouldn't play 
with that. Also it might be that programs that check whether 
applications can be "Windows certified" will check whether the 
application accesses the native API and I don't want to tell a company 
that wants to certificate an application written in FPC that they can't 
do it...

> Does .NET, etc. Actually use the Win32 APIs or NT APIs?
> (The runtime, obviously the programs use the .NET API...)

.NET is based on top of Win32 so it uses only the Win32 API. The only 
people that officially use the Native API are driver, kernel and 
subsystem developers at Microsoft (and ReactOS).

Regards,
Sven