In our previous episode, Maciej Izak said: > By Barry Kelly in comment :) : > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3443097/what-is-the-identity-pointer-before-a-ttypeinfo-there-for > > "all typeinfo fixups - pointers from one blob of typeinfo to another - are > of type PPTypeInfo, not PTypeInfo, to handle the dynamic linking case. In > the case of static linkage, there needs to be an intermediate pointer for > the convention to work, and part of the typeinfo itself makes as much sense > as any. That is to say, it's not there for the linker; it's there because > of the convention, and the convention is there because of dynamic linking, > which is done the way it is to maximize potential for page sharing."
Thanks, I added it to the wiki: http://wiki.freepascal.org/packages#Details _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
