Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 23:18:24 -0700
From: Craig Markwardt <CRAIGM AT SLAC DOT Stanford DOT EDU>
Subject: Using GCC for Windows apps/DLL's
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
References: <940922101933 DOT 20e01f88 AT FAXCSL DOT DCRT DOT NIH DOT GOV>


Chris Tate writes:
 > Stan Shebs, once of Apple and now with Cygnus (a private company that does
 > GNU-based development on a contract basis?), worked for quite some time on
 > porting gcc/g++ 2.x to the Macintosh, which shares with NT the fact that
 > its toolbox uses Pascal calling conventions.
 > 
 > It turns out that making gcc understand Pascal calling conventions is
 > *very* hard.  Here are the basic differences:


While you are correct that Windows NT uses the PASCAL "keyword" in its
function definitions, I don't think the calling style is Pascal.

Last time I checked the Windows NT header files, I found

#define PASCAL

which indicates that PASCAL functions in NT are really just __cdecl.


Craig

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