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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Question about Turbo Pascal
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Date: 30 Aug 90 13:15:20 GMT
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In article <1990Aug29.235707.20159@herald.usask.ca> lowey@herald.usask.ca (Kevin Lowey) writes:
>From article <6028@drutx.ATT.COM>, by bradley@drutx.ATT.COM (DavidsonBC):
>> 
>>  2) If there is not that much control in Turbo Pascal then can I use C
>>     and link that together with the turbo Pascal?
>
>That should be good enough for you, but if you want to you can link in any
>.OBJ file with the compiler {$L} directive and procedures marked EXTERNAL.

Not quite true:  only a very limited subset of .OBJ files are linkable.  
You have to write them specifically to meet TP's standards; you can just
barely link C code, but not if it uses any library calls.

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu