ks@ecn-ee.UUCP (02/17/84)
#N:ecn-ee:13100009:000:658 ecn-ee!ks Feb 16 23:01:00 1984 Does anyone really know what the fortran keyword is supposed to do.. The 4.2BSD C compiler will let you declare a function as type fortran then just treats it the same as a function of type int.. If you try to use it to declare a variable, you get the following error message: "ks.c", line 4: fortran declaration must apply to function Extrapolating a little, is this keyword intended to be used to declare an external function as fortran so the compiler uses a different calling procedure (call by reference, adding a '_' after the function name, etc.)? But no one really has ever bothered to implement it?? Any ideas??? Kirk Smith Purdue EE
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (02/21/84)
I believe there is or was at least one compiler within Bell that
did indeed use the "fortran" keyword to generate a different,
fortran-compatible calling sequence. (Probably a non-recursive
sequence for a relatively old machine.)
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