Re: gec: Is it possible to specify a signature for a external C call?

Eric Bezault <ericb-D6Qt/9opevxWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:44:53 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.gobo.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Eric Bezault wrote:
> Berend de Boer wrote:
>> For ISE it generates the prototype in a .c file:
>>
>>   extern EIF_REAL_64 posix_difftime(EIF_INTEGER_32, EIF_INTEGER_32);
>>
>>
>> If I add a header with:
>>
>>         external "C use <time.h>"
>>
>> No such prototype is created.
>>
>> So their behaviour is intentional and it allows everyone to link to
>> libraries without having to know how to write header files (or having to
>> distribute them if you distribute your C code).
> 
> I'll do like ISE

It's now implemented in the version of gec in SVN.

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