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From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
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Subject: Re: gcc question
In-Reply-To: <199703042018.NAA10266@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Mar 4, 97 01:18:12 pm"
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 21:32:43 +0100 (MET)
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Terry Lambert wrote:
> > I've got a question about interfacing between `normal' c and -traditional.
> > 
> > I have an API that is compiled with no -traditional flag that
> > expects the folowing parameters:
> > char *, char, char *
> > 
> > I want to call this program from within something that has to be compiled
> > with -traditional. When I'd call this api function the secod argument
> > will be treated differently by the -traditional program and tha API
> > function (for which I do not have the source). My question: how can
> > I still interface between the two, without having to write a wrapper
> > (becasue I think that is ugly).
> 
> Compile the ANSI C code without a prototype in scope, and it will use
> "traditional" stack type promotion calling conventions.
> 

As I specifically told in my mail, I do not have the ansi c api source.

-Guido