On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 02:26:05PM -0500, Michael Furr wrote:
> 
> I realize this is somewhat of a pedantic question but, what is the proper
> prototype for a C function which has a parameter of type unit?
> ie:
>  external foo : unit -> unit = "foo_c"
> 
> should foo_c be declared
>  void foo_c(void);
> or
>  value foo_c(value);

This one.

> 
> Would it ever cause a problem on any architecture if one used the wrong
> form?

Yup. I've had problems with the bytecode runtime not liking C functions that
don't return anything when they should be returning a Val_unit.

-- 
Shawn Wagner
shawnw@speakeasy.org

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