External, C, AsmName, ..._(re)

Sun, 8 Sep 1996 13:05:26 -0400 (EDT)

On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Peter Gerwinski wrote:

> Hello folks,
> 
>   (* This mail is somehow long.  In short: I want to take
>   the directives `Extern', `C', and `AsmName' *out* of GPC
>   and extend the syntax of `External' instead.  Okay? :*)
> I would suggest to define as few directives as possible and to
> drop everything but `External' but extend its syntax to meet our
> requirements.  A first approach could be


	Good idea.  Having 3 directives which basically do the same thing
is pretty stupid.


> My current idea now would be to define
> 
>     Procedure foo; external;  (* yields "Foo" *)
> 
>     Var
>       x: Integer; external;  (* yields "X" *)
> 
> plus
> 
>     Procedure foo; external name 'foO';
> 
>     Var
>       x: Integer; external name 'my_x';
> 
> to replace "AsmName 'foO'".  Later we can extend this to allow a
> name of a shared library between `external' and `name'.


	No objections to this idea from me.  Anybody else?

	Hey ... did y'all know that a Linux version of FPKPascal (or is it
just FPPascal??) is now out (currently only a.out but and ELF version is
expected soon).  One thing I like about FPKPascal is that it has
function overloading.  Any plans of adding this to GPC?  This would be a
nice thing to throw in, IMHO.


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