On Sun, 8 Sep 1996 00:34:02 +0200 (MET DST), Peter Gerwinski peter@agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de wrote:

According to Berend de Boer:

...

Can we not simply see a C .h file as an interface-only module? I mean I can simply import a c .h file which gpc parses and all symbols defined in that header file are exported symbols?

This would mean that GPC would have to parse C source.

Remember that #include "foo.h" or (*$include "foo.h" *) just means that GPC treads the file `foo.h' just if its contents were written in our source file. A Pascal program using this mechanism would in fact look like the following:

Program Test;

 extern int foo;

 extern void ioctl (int fildes, int cmd, ...);

begin [...] end.

You don't actually want this. ;-)

No, I don't :)

But it would be a good idea to write a C->pas header converter. Right now, you have to translate all headers before you can use them.

janjaap

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