OpenEuphoria

Re: Berkeley DB -- anyone care?

• Posted by jbrown1050 at hotpop.com Jan 05, 2003
• 470 views

On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:02:33AM -0500, Robert Craig wrote:
> 
> Andy Serpa writes:
> > Well, I don't know really -- wouldn't cdecl be standard under Linux 
> > since stdcall was Microsoft's invention?  I have no idea really. 
> 
> I believe the terms "cdecl" and "stdcall" are
> purely Windows terminology. On Linux there
> seems to be just one calling convention,
> probably different from either cdecl or stdcall.
> I don't know if it even has a name.
> It's insane that Windows has two conventions.
> 
> Regards,
>    Rob Craig
>    Rapid Deployment Software
>    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
> 

Turns out its a bit more complicated than that, thanks to multiple executable
formats under Linux, but since the interprerter is an ELF binary, there is only
the ELF dynamic library format to have to worry about - i.e., wrapping the db
in Linux should not have any major difficulties.

> 
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