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[garys at bunker.UUCP]

> In article <422 at gitpyr.UUCP> robert at gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya) writes:
> 
> >    extern sys_read "SYS$READ" ();
> >
> >would tell the compiler/linker to call the entrypoint  "SYS$READ"  whenever
> >"sys_read"  was called in the source.
> 
> Bravo for this idea!  The syntax, however, conflicts with the "old-style
> initializer" syntax.  Anybody got ideas for a parseable syntax?
> -- 
> 
> 	Geoff Kuenning

OK, how about:

	extern sys_read() = "SYS$READ";

Gary Samuelson