Re: Writing device drivers in Delphi.

Martin Harvey wrote:

> If I get really bored, I'm well inclined to embark on the worlds largest
> hack to let you write device drivers in Delphi.

you are bored !

> As I see it, there's only one really difficult problem: Producing an
> executable of the right format, with appropriate entry point and fixup
> information.

simple , innit ?

and in terms of difficulty, where would you see translating the DDK header files
? and all those pesky macros ? of course, you'd also have to replace the Delphi
memory manager with one that was aware of paged versus non-paged pool. and all
that assembly in system.pas - very tricky ! and of course no floating point or
exceptions, and i'm not sure about variants.

i would strongly advise you against trying this. if you are still determined,
download the DDK and work through the sample code there - the comments alone
("this should work but the compiler barfs") will give you second thoughts.



good luck !



Mat
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