I really don't like that thing of not writing type information but AFAIK all parameters without type are expected to be/ treated as var, as well as the "function" keyword itself (or is it void?). So that should be fine I guess.

function is an alias for var, so the return type is there. Anyway, not declaring a type is something that was legal in K&R C and up to C89, looked something like this:



It's no longer valid since C99, for very obvious and good reasons. You can ommit the name though, and write something like "void foo(int, char*)". BSD is infamous for having type signatures like that. Imho everyone who is into the UNIX philosophy of using the least amount of characters to write a function declaration should be stoned, but nobody is asking me who should be stoned anymore these days (but seriously, who is expected to understand "void strncat(char*,const char*, size_t)" without looking it up?!)

So yeah, no, not legal. However, since we are at the topic of C quirkiness, anyone want to take a guess what the difference between these two is?



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I use this plugin with this kind of function prototypes since 2008 without any problem ... until now. So there must have been a change with this version or accessing external plugins via dll isn't possible with an open beta version at all?

I was mostly trying to say why the code shouldn't have compiled in the first place. If I may ask, why don't you provide type information? The type will default to int, which may or may not be the size of a pointer (most likely it will be on a 32 bit system), but the type int is only guaranteed to be at least 2 bytes. Same with using function, var is not really a type meant for holding pointers. Just because everyone does it, doesn't meant everyone should!

Using the DLL in C-Script and lite-C

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In lite-C it's just a normal prototype (and you can use other variable types than var), in C-Script we need a special dllfunction declaration:

dllfunction ldexpc(x,n); // declaration of a DLL function in C-Script
function ldexpc(x,n); // declaration of a DLL function in lite-C