On 24 Nov 08, at 21:49, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Florian Klaempfl said: > > > Of course if OS provides functions, use them! they should be properly > > > implemented and will be even faster without memory serious impact, but > > > I'm quite sure that not all functions will be provided by all OSs. > > > Maybe a small subset should be available for platforms that do not > > > provide native support like DOS and a WideString or UnicodeString is > > > available, maybe as a separate unit to be linked in only if needed. > > > > Well, if anybody volounteers, something similiar to cwstrings for unix > > could be done :) > > Worse, the Dos users are the worst with respect to binary size syndrome.
Well, as long as it's optional (as suggested by the original post), noone should complain... ;-) Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
