In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: > After just having spent 2 days debugging an issue in fcl-res that could > have been avoided by just using the assembler instead of by > reimplementing object writers from scratch,
I do like the object writers mostly from a support viewpoint. The FPC as-a-system is a lot more equal and deterministic across installations, and one or several dimensions from versioning matrix disappear. Moreover there is hope to avoid having long time unfixable issues like: http://www.freepascal.org/faq.var#unix-ld219 > I'm even more strengthened in my conviction that it is a mistake trying to > implement and reimplement everything just to make cross-compiling somewhat > easier, > or to avoid libc version compatibility problems on Linux that were > common 15 years ago. The libc discussion is IMHO different. Last week, the FPC_USE_LIBC became 11 years old. There are hardly user experiences on Linux. (admitted, usually some bugs have accumulated causing a first movers disadvantage). Frankly, I guess nobody is really that interested, and the current solution works fine enough. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
