>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Florian >Klaempfl >Sent: dinsdag 21 december 2004 8:30 > >Peter Vreman wrote: > >>>>That said, the RTL should also avoid confusion with the Windows/Delphi >>>>THandle type, and introduce a cross-platform and opaque TFileHandle >>>>type. >>> >>>It's text/file/file of in pascal ;) >>> >>> >>>>Which will happen to be equal to THandle on 32-bit windows. >>>>On 32-bit Linux, the definition of THandle will then also equal >>>>TFileHandle. >>>> >>>>This will also take some work :-) >>> >>>I guess this is no solution. It makes porting delphi apps very hard. >>>What's the problem if thandle is 64 bit on 64 bit systems? You >>>can still store a 32 bit file handle in it. >> >> >> It'll give a lot of Warnings when compiling the sources. And there is a >> risk for rangecheck errors. >> >> I checked Kylix, there THandle=longword which is also incompatible with >> our THandle=longint under Linux. >> >> My proposal is to rename the current THandle to TFileHandle. And add an >> platform independent type "THandle=PtrUInt". >> Note that this can still cause range check errors under Unix, because >> invalid filedescriptors have (normally) value -1. > >Sounds good to me.
This would be nice Marc _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
