Hello, all
At the present time I'm working on the new RTL wich will be fully campatible with FPC
and SPC. As a base I use FPC RTL and add SPC related changes. All ULONG,
USHORT, etc. definetins will be removed, because this is C-ism. All SPC constants will
be added to FPC RTL if such constant not present yet. Functions will be in
FPC-style declaration (function .....; cdecl;) and APIENTRY will be removed. If
records have various fieldnames than variable records will be used. If SPC function
not a
same as FPC, then function overloading will be used. Well... By default used FPC
function declaration, not SPC. All units will be tested for success FPC/SPC
compilation.
New structure is
BSEDOS.PAS includes
DOSCALLS.INC {All functions from DOSCALL.DLL}
NLS.INC {All functions from NLS.DLL}
...
BSETIB.PAS includes
TIB.INC {Thread information block structures}
DOSCALLS.PAS includes
DOSCALLS.INC {All functions from DOSCALL.DLL}
NLS.INC {All functions from NLS.DLL}
TIB.INC {Thread information block structures}
...
BSEDOS.PAS wil contain something like this
unit bsedos;
interface
{$define interface}
{$I doscalls.inc}
{$i nls.inc}
{$undef interface}
implementation
{$define implementation}
{$I doscalls.inc}
{$i nls.inc}
{$undef implementation}
begin
end.
DOSCALLS.INC will contain something like this
{$ifdef interface}
function dosbeep(freq, dur: longint): longint; cdecl;
{$endif interface}
{$ifdef implementation}
function dosbeep(freq, dur: longint): longint; cdecl; external 'DOSCALLS' index XXX;
{$endif interface}
As you see I added fpc-like units (doscalls, moucalls, etc.) and don't removed
spc0like units (bsedos, bsetib, etc.). Now I'm talking with Tomas Hajny (fpc/2
maintainer)
about moving such rtl to mainstream fpc tree.
BTW, in fpc 1.1 planned to drop emx (I think they will use openwatcom binutils instead
of emx binutils).
And, please, comment this (This is also will TODO for documenting ;-) ):
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what's the status of the OpenSibyl project? How many (active)
members does the team have? What were the exact license conditions
for the original Sibyl sources (as set by the former SpeedSoft
owner)? I'm asking so, because I know he made the sources available
for download, but I have never seen any document describing the legal
status of these sources. What are the license conditions for the
current sources (including your OS/2 units)? Are there any WWW pages
I could have a look at? Are the current sources available for
download from somewhere (e.g. the Netlabs' CVS server)?
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Bye
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