On 18 Dec 11, at 10:31, Marcos Douglas wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Tomas Hajny <xhaj...@hajny.biz> wrote: > > On 17 Dec 11, at 21:07, David Emerson wrote: > > > >> two little questions > >> > >> 1. Is it possible to make an alias to a function ... so rather than just > >> re-calling with the same parameters, it's actually the same thing? like > >> the way > >> we can do, e.g., type natural = cardinal, or const GG = 6, but with a > >> function? > > . > > . > > > > There are multiple solutions possible: > > > > 1) Making the functions public and creating the aliases as external: > > > > procedure X; public name 'X'; > > begin > > WriteLn (1); > > end; > > > > procedure Y; external name 'X'; > > > > begin > > X; > > Y; > > end. > > What is this syntax using "public name"?
This syntax allows calling of the published procedure / function from other object files (typically created in other compilers / programming languages); "public" says that calling from other objects files shall be possible and the optional "name" part allows you to specify a fixed name under which it is be accessible (in addition to the standard mangled name used by FPC). Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
