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From: Dr J R Stockton 

In comp.lang.pascal.borland message , Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:43:42, Jim Leonard
 posted:

>On Feb 23, 1:31 pm, Marco van de Voort  wrote:
>> On 2011-02-23, Jim Leonard  wrote:
>>
>> > I'm aware that TP7/BP7 pascal programs can call external assembler
>> > routines.  But is the opposite possible?  Meaning, can assembler
>> > programs call routines in precompiled pascal units?  C and assembly
>> > have this relationship (you can call C library routines from asm, and
>> > asm libs from C) but was curious if TP7+Tasm had this same
>> > relationship.
>>
>> Yes. Because of the same reason. Both C and Pascal are translated to
>> assembler, so in the compiled translation assembler already calls pascal/C
>> routines.
>
>What I meant was:  From my assembler program, can I link in routines
>from precompiled pascal units?
>
>I'm beginning to think not, but would like confirmation either way.


Undoubtedly it is possible, but you might have to write your own linker,
or a pre-processor for the Pascal, etc.


What might serve more easily is to take your ASM code, and drop it into
a Pascal program that reads essentially

        { whatever makes code in your Pascal units available }
        begin
        ASM
        { what you have in ASM, tweaked }
        END
        end.

That ought to work, but the tweak could be large, and your asm code
would need to understand the Pascal call interface.

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