RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.51

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Henk Robbers
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 2:50 PM
> To: MiNT
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.51
>
...
> Hi Frank.
>
> I thought of that. Has inlining the same effect on the code size
> of the inlined
> procedure body? I could imagine that the combination of inlining
> and passing
> parameters in registers, will increase the beneficial effects. :-)
>
> Remains the nicety of having a call interface that makes it possible to
> exchange compiled and tested code between compiling systems.
> That makes everybody free in choosing their favourite compiler,
> independent of
> the compiler used to produce a library.
> It makes the mintlib easier accessible to a much wider audience.

Actually this again would be a no-brainer if we would start to move MiNT lib
functionality into a shared library. It coould be used by any language, as
it uses a well-defined (binary) interface. Only the proxy functions would
need to be recompiled for each system...