ects of cross platform progamming,
like different APIs, different operating system concepts etc. Since we
want to be as crossplatform compatible as possible interface
compatability is the most important
issue for us. JEDI Code Library users should have to opportunity the
use the JCL
on whatever platform they like. Figure 1 shows the three basic layers
we have to deal with:
</p>
<ul>
  <li>Platform independent layer: Units which are not (or only very
minor)
platform specific and do not depend on a specific c