From p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk  Mon Nov 17 21:05:02 1997
From: p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 17 Nov 1997 22:05:02 +0100
Subject: R-alpha: Re: R-beta: installing new packages in window95 version of R
In-Reply-To: Luke Tierney's message of Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:00:36 -0600 (CST)
References: <9711171700.AA04611@nokomis.stat.umn.edu>
Message-ID: <x2g1ovdyf5.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>

Luke Tierney <luke@stat.umn.edu> writes:


> One potential problem is with the calling conventions. Watcom uses a
> register based method that appears to be different from the optional
> resgister-based one under MS. The default under MS is I think a stack
> based convention. If the R .exe is compiled with default calling
> conventions then it *may* work to have MS Fortran generate code for
> regieter-based calls (there may be a flag you can set for that) but
> I'm worried there may be more differences than argument passing, that
> the conventions on who saves and restores other registers may be
> different. If that is indeed the case then calls may appear to work in
> some contexts but not in others.

Yuk!

I want this to work with GCC as cross-compiler
I want this to work with GCC as cross-compiler
I want this to work with GCC as cross-compiler
I want this to work with GCC as cross-compiler
I want this to work with GCC as cross-compiler

- but I don't have the time just yet...

(I've got the crosscompiler, Linux->Win32, but I couldn't figure out
how to get the include files for the windows DDE stuff to behave.
Maybe I should spend some time (if I ever get any) on studying what it
does with DLL's?)

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R-alpha: Re: R-beta: installing new packages in window95 version of R
Peter Dalgaard BSA