>>>> >compiler support seems like more of an issue than OS support. this >"cdecl" and "stdcall" thing, for example - its not an issue AFAIK with >gcc under wintel. ><<< > >I'm pretty sure GCC doesn't produce Microsoft .OBJ files as output. But if >it did, then the calling convention thing would matter, if you wanted to mix >GCC code with other compiler code. thats what i meant: its more immediately obvious to me how issues with compilers affect "cross-platform-ness" than OS issues, precisely because if things like this. if you can change the ABI with a declaration in the code, then its pretty clear that GMPI has to specify either "no such declarations", or "always use this declaration" or something like that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe