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From: lyricalnanoha@usotsuki.hoshinet.org (Steve Nickolas)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:41:38 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [TUHS] why the leading under score added to function names?
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On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Warner Losh wrote:

> And this convention went away with ELF binaries.  No more _foo for 
> function foo.
>
> 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...
>
> Warner

Watcom C did the postfix style, dunno if it still does.

-uso.