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From: jbr0@cbnews.att.com (joseph.a.brownlee)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: cdecl and pascal keywords
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.130250.18450@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 7 Jan 91 13:02:50 GMT
References: <12184@sybase.sybase.com> <11742@alice.att.com> <2847@cirrusl.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbr@cblph.att.com
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <2847@cirrusl.UUCP>, dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com
(Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> Seriously, please don't assume that comp.lang.c readers will be able to
> answer questions about nonstandard extensions of the C programming
> language.  The "pascal" keyword is used by MS-DOS-specific compilers,
> and a better place to ask the question will be one of the MS-DOS
> newsgroups.

Well, it is also commonly used on the Macintosh, where the ROM software is
all written assuming PASCAL calling conventions.  The keyword "pascal" is
generally used in one of two ways:

    .	to prototype a ROM (or other library) routine.

    .	to force one of your own functions to use PASCAL conventions.  This
	is necessary, for example,  when a ROM routine expects a procedure
	pointer and you pass a pointer to your own routine written in C.

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