Checking g77 or gfortan calling convention for c++

[Klaas Vantournhout]

Hi,

I need to use complex functions from a fortran library in a c/c++ code.

As I have seen there are two calling conventions for complex functions.

g77 used the following calling convention.
Functions that return type default REAL actually return the C type
double, and functions that return type COMPLEX return the values via an
extra argument in the calling sequence that points to where to store the
return value.

In gfortran this behaviour changed for functions returning a COMPLEX
type, it basically returns now a c struct representing a complex value
or in c++ it returns std::complex<double>.

I am wondering if it is possible for autoconf to check the above calling
convention of a library.

An example of such a library would be for example the blas libray. A g77
complied blas library function would be called in c++ as

extern "C" {
void cdotc_(std::complex<float> *result, long *, std::complex<float> *,
long *, std::complex<float> *, long *);
}

While the gfortran version would be

extern "C" {
std::complex<float> cdotc_(long *, std::complex<float> *, long *,
std::complex<float> *, long *);
}

Is there any test for this?

Thanks in advance.


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