Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Calling C routines from Fortran programs.
Message-ID: <1988May28.221834.2605@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <7554@boring.cwi.nl>, <660009@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Date: Sat, 28 May 88 22:18:34 GMT

> Is there any more persuasive argument for a coherent procedure calling and
> naming convention across all compilers on any given architecture?

It's been tried.  Unfortunately, it has a tendency to be somewhat of a
Rube Goldberg affair, with the result that individual compilers implement
only the parts actually used by their languages.  This isn't much of an
improvement.  There are also fundamental problems of data incompatibility,
such as the widely-varying definitions of strings.
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