Calling FORTRAN from C (Was: Need matrix inversion C routine).

[Karl Heuer]

In article <25509 at amdcad.AMD.COM> tim at amd.com (Tim Olson) writes:
>If an underscore is not prepended ... you run into the problem of potential
>name-space conflicts with the assembly-level "helper" routines [e.g. "start"]

Actually, collision with register names and/or assembler instructions is the
stronger reason.  On machines where this isn't a problem, the helper routines
are typically written using the assembler's larger namespace, e.g. ".start".

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint