[fpc-devel] New rules for External

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But e.g.
  gcc -c -o test.ow test.c
produces identifiers *without* "_"-prefix

Peter Vreman wrote:

>>This is not Delphi compatible ...
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>Ofcourse we check this before changing things like this. Delphi only
>accepts the next directive for importing from DLLs:
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>external 'dllname' name 'functionname'
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>FPC supports besides importing from DLLs also referencing other public
>accessible assembler symbols. These can come from sharedlibraries or from
>linked objects or even from routines in pascal that are declared public.
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>external name 'functionname'
>external 'dllname'
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>If no functionname is specified the following rules are used:
>- default is to use the name as written in the source
>- for cdecl declared procedures the name as written in the source
>prepended with _ (for most targets, some don't need the _ prefix)
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>For referencing functions with external in your own program or exporting
>for referencing from other languages like C:
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>public
>public name 'functionname'
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>For the functionname the same rules as with external apply (as written in
>source and for cdecl prepended with a _)
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