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From: pal@calmasd.GE.COM (Peter Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: compilers and linkers
Message-ID: <2522@calmasd.GE.COM>
Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 03:44:45 EST
Article-I.D.: calmasd.2522
Posted: Fri Nov 13 03:44:45 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 09:05:26 EST
Organization: GE Calma, San Diego R&D.
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   It appears that in Unix derived C compilers global names get an
underscore prepended to them before they end up as symbols in the object file.
It also appears that in Unix derived Fortran compilers global names get an
underscore appended to them. I am sure there is going to be a bad reason for
this but I have to know: why the underscores and why in different places.
Most other compilers dont do this kind of thing, but how in Unix environments
does one link C and or Fortran with Pascal for example.
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