threads status in GPC

[Prof A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief)]

On 18 Jun 2004 at 15:17, Frank Heckenbach wrote:

> Adriaan van Os wrote:
>
> > Frank Heckenbach wrote:
> >
> > > Kernel-safe!? Do you mean you want to implement a kernel in GPC
> > > using the runtime library?
> >
> > Just a small "Hello Kernel" kernel extension, out of curiosity.
>
> A kernel extension -- well, I only know about the Linux kernel, but you
> usually #include a number of kernel specific headers (which contain asm
> code, special #defines and other nontrivial stuff). Trying to translate
> them to Pascal might not be really nice unless we have a fully automatic
> header converter that also handles such constructs ...

Perhaps I am just being naïve/ignorant - but wouldn't it be possible to
(somehow) compile the C headers into an intermediate (.gpi or .o or
.whatever) file that GPC can use? We already have {$L foo.c} which
calls the C compiler to produce an object file. Isn't there a way of
extending this concept with header files?

Best regards, The Chief
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Prof. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief)
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