bridger@rand-unix.arpa (01/23/87)
Rick-- Have you, or anyone else, figured out how to use routines assembled/compiled outside the Modula-2 system with M2? The Echelon book says that M2 will be able to make use of SYSLIB and other Microsoft REL-format libraries. However, it also says that M2 can call procedures in REL format, but not FUNCTIONS (which return values)! To be of much use as a general-purpose language, and specifically in Z-System environments, M2 needs a way to link in ASM (and C and FORTRAN) generated REL files which return values. I'd guess that such routines will require some type of M2-compatible header that communicates their function and argument types to the linker. Do you have the specs, or any suggestions? --bridger