On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:28:02 +0200 Sven Barth via fpc-devel <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>[...] > The intended purpose of dynamic packages (and libraries in general) is not > to save memory (in fact a binary plus packages would be much larger than > the statically compiled binary), but to share *binary* code so that this > code does not need to reside in multiple executables. 'What do we need them for? What's "special" about packages?': http://wiki.freepascal.org/packages#What_do_we_need_them_for.3F_What.27s_.22special.22_about_packages.3F >[...] > It isn't merely the memory management. The Object Pascal RTL exists of much > more than just memory management: there is exception handling, the RTTI, > resource strings, unit initialization and finalization. Good examples. I added them. Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
