In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said: > > The problem is not the programming (since a dedicated person could probably > > start with a translated glibc in a good month), but the continuous > > maintenance (for every distribution separately, since they could use > > different kernels, options etc) , and interoperability with C code would be > > killing. > > What maintenance are you referring to?
> The syscall interface is very stable, so you wouldn't have to touch > anything there. I haven't looked at the nptl source, yet, what do they > use that changes between distros? The syscall interface now only uses a subset of relatively the oldest functions. It doesn't use whatever libpthreads uses to interface with the kernel. (and which got reworked afaik with every major kernel version, and sometimes inbeween) _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
