In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > > There are FPC programs from 8 years back that still work with the current > > kernel. Try that with a program that depends on the C library. > > Sorry if this sounds dumb - it's late in the week. ;-) > Is this an issue, even if your program doesn't use any > procedures/functions from the dynamically linked C library. For example, > a console application that includes the cthreads unit (which dynamically > links to C Library), but doesn't actually use the C Library or threads. > Would such a console application not run on an 8 year old Linux distro?
No. The init code touches errno, and that has changed several times due to the fact that that var became threadsafe. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
