This is the change file for CWEB's COMMON under Win32 (Contributed by Fabrice Popineau, February 2002 ) The Microsoft C compiler included in Visual Studio allows for different parameter passing conventions than the standard one. This is actually specified with the Intel IA32 architecture. There exist three calling conventions under the IA32 architecture as defined by Intel. One of them is the standard C calling convention: Parameters are passed on the stack, calling function is responsible to unstack arguments. Names are decorated with a prefixed underscore. It is called the __cdecl convention. Another calling convention is the __fastcall convention. The first two 32bits arguments are passed on the stack. The called function is responsible for stack maintenance. Names are decorated with an @ sign as prefix, and another @ sign followed by the size of the arguments as suffix. The third one is the __stdcall convention and is basically the Pascal calling convention. Using the __fastcall convention is usually faster on Intel architecture. Names are decorated because obviously a __cdecl function can't behave the same way as a __fastcall one of the same prototype. So the new full prototype includes the keyword __cdecl or __fastcall. A compiler option allows to compile all functions using one or the other calling convention. If you compile using __fastcall, then you are bound to explicitly declare a few functions as __cdecl : the ones that are passed to the C library (like function pointers for qsort() or signal()) or functions that replace functions from the C library, because the standard headers have a __cdecl prototype for these functions. Also, you cannot declare a library function without giving it the exact prototype used in the library headers files. So you'd better use the header files to be safe. Admittedly, this is not vital for cweb, except that I build the whole texlive set of programs using the __fastcall convention. @x extern boolean names_match(name_pointer,const char *,size_t,eight_bits);@/ @y extern boolean __cdecl names_match(name_pointer,const char *,size_t,eight_bits);@/ @z @x extern void init_p(name_pointer,eight_bits);@/ @y extern void __cdecl init_p(name_pointer,eight_bits);@/ @z @x section 75 An omitted change file argument means that |"/dev/null"| should be used, @y An omitted change file argument means that |"NUL"| should be used, @z @x section 76 strcpy(change_file_name,"/dev/null"); @y strcpy(change_file_name,"NUL"); @z @x section 76 (this change copied from comm-bs.ch, July 94) else if (*s=='/') dot_pos=NULL,name_pos=++s; @y else if (*s == ':' || *s == '\\' || *s == '/') dot_pos=NULL,name_pos=++s; @z