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Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 14:15:30 +0200
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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Gerd wrote:
> christoph.grein@eurocopter.com schrieb:
> 
>> Gerd wrote:
>>> The GNAT Users Guide say that the "_" and the "@16" is appended
>>> automatically for "__stdcall" (as far as I understood). And the
>>> function is declared as "__stdcall" in the header-file.
>> External_Name and Link_Name in pragma Import are optional. But if you
>> provide them, they must be exact (AFAICS).
> 
> No. The Users guide say the "@nn" is always added, the "_" can be
> dropped by specifying a link name, but is added  if not specified in
> external name.
> 

FWIW, using ObjectAda and Windows function names it's the same,
the external name of the function must be given without underscore
and @suffix.

Using gcc on Windows I get the same linker error when I try to "just"
refer to a windows function in a simple C program.