From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] why the leading under score added to function names?
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:33:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120221033339.GA11143@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AAE63D3D-4F18-41E3-9059-7F885D6B29F5@bsdimp.com>
Warner Losh scripsit:
> Also, the fortran compiler would emit entry_ to as to not conflict
> either. Made calling C from Fortran, and vice versa, a lot of fun...
Unix f77 emitted _foo_, that is, what C saw as foo_. In effect you
could call arbitrary Fortran routines from C, but not really vice versa:
in order to do so, the C functions had to have names ending in _ and use
the f77 type system.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-21 3:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-20 20:52 arnold
2012-02-20 23:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2012-02-21 0:34 ` Brantley Coile
2012-02-21 2:50 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-21 3:33 ` John Cowan [this message]
2012-02-21 3:41 ` Steve Nickolas
2012-02-21 18:18 ` ron
2012-02-22 19:17 arnold
2012-02-22 21:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2012-02-22 22:47 ` A. P. Garcia
2012-02-23 4:30 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2012-02-25 18:45 ` Random832
2012-02-25 19:24 ` Steve Nickolas
2012-02-25 20:39 ` John Cowan
2012-02-25 22:15 ` Random832
2012-02-26 13:28 ` Ronald Natalie
2012-02-27 1:30 ` random832
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