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HELP ANSI_C_DEC Anthony Worrall, 1998 Revised: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 I had forgot that The {} after a procedure declaration are replaced with ; See HELP * NEW_CDEC for basic details of the external interface. CONTENTS - (Use <ENTER> g to access required sections) -- Accessing these facilities -- Differences from newc_dec -- Accessing these facilities ----------------------------------------- The facilities described in this file are obtained by adding the line: uses ansi_c_dec; before any attempt is made to parse any ANSI C code (ie. before any occurrence of the keywords "external declare name in ansi_c") -- Differences from newc_dec ------------------------------------------ The main differences between ansi_c_dec and newc_dec are in the way arguments are parsed and the passing and returning of single float values. These differences can be seen in the example of multiply from HELP * external Here is an example, using C syntax, of importing a procedure which takes two floating point numbers and returns their product: uses newc_dec external declare mytag in c; float multiply(x, y) float x, y; {} endexternal The same example in ANSI C would be written as uses ansi_c_dec external declare mytag in ansi_c; float multiply(float x, float y); endexternal There is the difference in the syntax that the type declarations are now placed in the arguments list and {} replaced with ; The deeper difference that the arguments in ANSI are passed as single values where previously they are coerced to doubles before being passed. --- $poplocal/local/newc_dec/help/ansi_c_dec --- Copyright Anthony Worrall 2001. All rights reserved. ------