Ian Thurlbeck wrote:

Since I wrote this message, we've made a change to the way you init a call to a library function. This ditches the use of the global variable :) and requires you to pass it as part of the init. Old programs still work numerically, so that's OK.

I would go putting in a kludge in the compiler for something like this.

OK, I'm putting in `--init-modules'/`{$init-modules}' now (ian5[ab].pas, also fixes ian3.pas).

It would be interesting to know how Sun and Dec (Compaq) do this though? It must be something the linker knows about in the object module format, I suppose.

I have no idea, and no access to those compilers ... Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank@g-n-u.de http://fjf.gnu.de/ PGP and GPG keys: http://fjf.gnu.de/plan