On 28/11/2013 12:12, Marco van de Voort wrote: >>> The startup code is modified because since the FPC rtl can work both >>> with and without libc, it is seeded with "raw" data. (unprocessed >>> environment etc). Also the frame pointer (EBP/RBP) needs to be nilled >>> because of Pascal's nested procedure support, and exceptions in the FPU mask >>> enabled. >> >> Better not to go there. You'd be disabling a lot of glue code that is >> needed to preserve compatible API. Just use the libc calls if you can. > > I'm not entirely sure what you mean here. What calls? What ABI?
Sorry, I was referring to skipping libc/syscall API, not specifically startup. > Anyway, one of my interests in this debian/freebsd port is to give the libc > based port a bit of a testdrive. As said, it is not used anyway in > production atm (IOW all FreeBSD and Linux versions are syscall based) Thanks for your efforts. Feel free to drop by if you have new questions. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
