Pete Lomax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> New to this list, so please excuse any glaring stupidity.

Welcome here.

> I'd be interested to see what sort of signature changes between
> compile and runtime you think are likely to happen, as I have to admit
> I have never encountered such a beast. Doesn't that force
> non-prototyped calls?

*Me* thinks, Dan is considering calling into old and possibly outdated
libraries. Trying to catch such errors at subroutine level seems
strange.

>       procedure fred(integer x, string y)

>       _u_fred:
>                       I5=P3[1]
>                       S5=P3[2]
>       _fred:

There is no P3[] involved. "_fred" just starts with whatever is in
registers I5/S5.

> For optional parameter handling, I will do something like:

Please read my proposal WRT default params posted elsewhere in this thread.
The default value could be the result of an arbitrary expression, so its
not that simple.

> Pete

leo

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