hurf@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Hurf Sheldon) (04/27/87)
Is ther a way to call system subroutines from Pascal in the
Berkeley Pascal Compiler. I have a user who is trying to call plot(3x)
from a pascal program. Can fortran library functions be called from
pascal?. I have tried some fortran type calls - ie '_function()' and
'_system(function)' but it was a stab in the dark and didn't seem to
work.
thanks,
hurf
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I sold my Elan, got a job in science; Now, no one takes me seriously.schwartz@swatsun (Scott Schwartz) (04/29/87)
In article <826@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, hurf@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Hurf Sheldon) writes: > Is ther a way to call system subroutines from Pascal in the > Berkeley Pascal Compiler. ... Can fortran library functions be called from > pascal?. The "pascal programmer's guide" (I have Sun unix: is this part of the berkley distribution?) says you can declare C library calls as: procedure thingy( <appropriate declarations> ); external c; and calls to fortran as: procedure thingy( <appropriate declarations> ); external fortran; Any you have to look up how do declare various kinds of parameters. For C, at least, strings get declared as conformant arrays of characters; most things get passed as "var". Then you also have to link in the appropriate library (i.e. -lc) -- # Scott Schwartz @ Swarthmore College Computer Science Program # UUCP: ...{{seismo,ihnp4}!bpa, cbmvax!vu-vlsi, sun!liberty}!swatsun!schwartz # AT&T: (215)-328-8610 /* lab phone */