Hi Charlie, everyone,
On 3/28/23 11:33, Karoly Balogh wrote:
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If you want to export a variable without name mangling, you must declare a
public name for it, something like:
var
foobar: integer; public name '_myfoobar';
Then reference it as:
var
foobar: integer; external name '_myfoobar';
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Thanks for the tip above.
I was able to write a couple of perl-scripts that are able to convert my
old Pascal sources to something that fpc can parse. Amongst other
things, the scripts inject the "public name"/"external name" annotations
so that the program can link.
But I suspect I have a new problem: With the old Pascal/MT+ compiler it
would appear that local variables declared in functions/procedures have
a life-time that spans the whole program, like a "static" declared
variable in C. With fpc, it looks like locally declared variables are
automatic, put on the stack(?), and so they go out of existence once out
of scope ?
The program depends on this feature in the old compiler. I did some
googling and found that putting local variables in a "const" section
instead of "var" would make them have a "whole-program" lifetime, but
then I need to provide them with an initial value.
Do I have any other option besides changing from "var" to "const"
everywhere, and provide initial values in all declarations ?
Regards
Jacob
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