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    Quote Originally Posted by QuantumPete View Post
    Then it pays to take notice of your sig and compile with -Wall

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    Yes, but in this case we're dealing with cross-language interfaces, which usually means that there's no way to actually let the compiler verify that the header file / prototype matches the actually generated code, since the Fortran compiler will not accept C style header files.

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    If I'm not mistaken, you'd still need an extern declaration for the FORTRAN function. Hopefully that declaration is in some header file shipped with the FORTRAN, but not compiled into it.
    So you include that header in C and the compiler will perform argument checking. It would, of course, suck if you didn't get the header with the FORTRAN, but had to make it up yourself. FORTRAN variable translations are always tricky, especial logical.

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