extern "C" bug??

[Dale Mellor]

I am using egcs-1.0.3 after upgrading from gcc-2.7.2, and am writing
C++ code that needs to link to a FORTRAN program. It has stopped working
and it turns out that the cure is to convert C++ functions with return
types of float into ones with types of double.

I thought that specifying c linkage, i.e. 'extern "C" real foo() {...}' was
supposed to automatically promote real return values (and function
arguments for that matter) into double precision. I presume it worked
before for this reason, therefore is this a bug in egcs?


                                                                   Dale
 
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