On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 15:06:30 +0200, Eduardo Morras wrote > At 11:19 06/09/2004, you wrote: > > >On 6 sep 2004, at 09:28, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > >>>Especially in case the linker supports multiple namespaces and > >>>one package needs symbol X from library A, and another one from library > >>>B. > >> > >>There is always some directed graph in dependancies that can be translated > >>into weights. But true, this kind of problems make having one weightfile > >>a bit difference (since e.g. Mac OS X will probably be different). > > > >No, it's not per system, but per package/program. Suppose there are > >libraries A and B which both export symbol X. One program needs symbol X > >from library A, and another one from library B, but both need both > >libraries A and B for other symbols. > > > >You then simply cannot assign a weight to A and B so that it works > >correctly in all cases. > > > > > >Jonas > > I always thought that fpc supports a.x and b.x for differenciating > them, but never used it. Perhaps even a type definition in your > program as > > type > Graphic = a.x; > Incognite = b.x; > > allows you use both without any problem. > > P.S. From freepascal.com/advantage.html; Is this still true?? > > "Each unit has it's own identifiers In Pascal you never need to > worry about polluting the namespace, like in C where an identifier > needs to be unique accross the entire program. No, in Pascal each > unit gets it's own namespace and that's very relaxed."
The problem is exactly that we have to link C libraries in this case where such namespaces aren't available. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
