BUG #2292: Calling conventions in docs - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Adriaan van Os
Subject BUG #2292: Calling conventions in docs
Date
Msg-id 20060301130817.EDD20F0B03@svr2.postgresql.org
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The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      2292
Logged by:          Adriaan van Os
Email address:      pgres@microbizz.nl
PostgreSQL version: 8.1
Operating system:   Mac OS X
Description:        Calling conventions  in docs
Details:

Section 32.9.5. Writing Code of the 8.1 docs says:

>>While it may be possible to load functions written in languages other than
C into PostgreSQL, this is usually difficult (when it is possible at all)
because other languages, such as C++, FORTRAN, or Pascal often do not follow
the same calling convention as C. That is, other languages do not pass
argument and return values between functions in the same way<<

This is nonsense. GNU Pascal and GNU C use the same calling conventions. In
fact, they share the same compiler-backend.

Sincerely,

Adriaan van Os
<http://www.microbizz.nl/gpc.html>

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