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From: cd5340@mars.njit.edu (David Charlap)
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Subject: Re: Fortran routines from pascal?
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Date: 13 Mar 91 19:53:30 GMT
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I don't know about your implimentation, but on the PC, there are other
more serious concerns.  mostly, that each language uses a different 
convention for parameter/return-address passing.  MS-fortran allows
the user to specify if a procedure is to use FORTRAN, PASCAL, or C 
calling conventions.  MS-pascal and MS-C also have similar declarations.
If the wrong conventions are used, no parameters will pass correctly,
and there's no gurantee that anything will work right.

MS-Fortran also allows strings to be formatted as PASCAL or C strings
in addition to the CHARACTER*n type that FORTRAN normally uses.
--
David Charlap                   "Invention is the mother of necessity"
cd5340@mars.njit.edu            "Necessity is a mother"
Operators are standing by	"mother!" - Daffy Duck