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From: buckland@ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland)
Subject: Re: Calling C from FORTRAN under Unix
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Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 16:34:21 GMT

In article <5343@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
>On a Unix system I want to call a C routine from a FORTRAN
>program. The linker says the C routine is undefined.
>To anyone familiar with this problem: what is the way around it? 

 The technique I have used is to write a little interface routine
 with its entry point having the name the FORTRAN program wants
 to call, and which calls the entry point the C routine provides.
 This was done to call a C library routine.  It works as long as
 the C library routine is FORTRAN-callable in the first place;
 otherwise, the little interface routine has to get bigger, so
 that it can transform between the argument lists provided by
 the FORTRAN program and desired by the C routine.