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

Mon, 9 Sep 96 16:18:21 CST

On Sun, 8 Sep 1996 00:34:02 +0200 (MET DST), 
Peter Gerwinski   wrote:

>According to Berend de Boer:
>> Can we not simply see a C .h file as an interface-only module? I mean I can
>> simply import a c .h file which gpc parses and all symbols defined in that
>> header file are exported symbols?
>
>This would mean that GPC would have to parse C source.
>
>Remember that #include "foo.h" or (*$include "foo.h" *) just means
>that GPC treads the file `foo.h' just if its contents were written
>in our source file.  A Pascal program using this mechanism would
>in fact look like the following:
>
>    Program Test;
>
>      extern int foo;
>
>      extern void ioctl (int fildes, int cmd, ...);
>
>    begin
>      [...]
>    end.
>
>You don't actually want this. ;-)
>

No, I don't :)

But it would be a good idea to write a C->pas header converter. Right now, 
you have to translate all headers before you can use them.


janjaap

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