In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said: > > Question: what is the best way to maintain code that must compile with > > both FPC and Delphi2007? > > The obvious solution is to use IFDEF and define a new type, say TMyHandle. > > FPC's libraries however take care of many platform differences. Is > > there any better way to solve this? > > Shortly said: No. The Delphi API is wrong; It should also return THandle > (as that is what Windows CreateFile returns), but probably for historical > reasons they still use Integer. > With the advent of 64-bit delphi, they could have cleaned up their API, but > Alas...
IMHO the universal handle (for e.g. IPC related handles and file handles) is not a portable concept to begin with. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
