From: Michael Van Canneyt To: Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [fpc-devel]crash > > > On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Maxim Artemev wrote: > > > Hello. > > > > >From the manual: > > [--cut--] > > 'If the procedure is declared with the cdecl modifier, then the compiler > > will pass the array as a C compiler would pass it. This, in effect, emulates > > the C construct of a varable number of arguments, as the following example > > will show:' > > [--cut--] > > > > This works only under *NIX (I was tested under FreeBSD) > > > > Under Win32 when I'm trying to call a declared function in DLL with > > C-variable array parameters it makes a crash with run-time error 217 > > (perhaps stack overflow?). > > Any solve of this problem? > > Functions in Windows DLLs usually use the stdcall calling convention. > Are you sure that cdecl is the correct covention for the library > you are trying to use ? > Yes. I'm translating C headers of Tcl library. None of __stdcall or PASCAL or WINAPI wasn't declared. extern __attribute__(( dllimport )) void Tcl_AppendResult(Tcl_Interp * interp , ...); translated to: procedure Tcl_AppendResult(interp: pTcl_Interp; args: array of const); cdecl; external TCL_LIBRARY;