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From: rustcat@russell.STANFORD.EDU (Vallury Prabhakar)
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Subject: Re: MAJOR ANSI C WART (my opinion, of course)
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Date: Sun, 8-Nov-87 04:10:53 EST
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In article <2530@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:

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>You're also going to have trouble if you have a library written in Pascal,
>and want to call members from FORTRAN.  Not an insoluable problem, but
>inconvient and tricky.

In this context, one of my friends wrote a Pascal interface for the set of
GKS routines (which are in Fortran) for a VMS system.  Didn't seem to have
too much trouble doing it.  On the other hand, I tried linking C modules
to Fortran subroutines a while ago, for the same purpose.  Linking routines
which only juggled around with numbers was fine, but handling strings was
not all that easy.  Again, I guess this would vary from system to system.

							-- V