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dirkjan.eertink@getronics.com

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Delphi calling Fortran calling Delphi

The Delphi-program (see below) calls a procedure

DELPHICALLSFORTRAN(testfunc)

which resides in FtnLib3.DLL, compiled with Intel Visual Fortran 9.1.033 (IVF)

The parameter "testfunc" is a pointer and Delphi 'connects' that pointer to

a Delphi-procedure "testfunc".

On its turn, the Fortran-procedure DELPHICALLSFORTRAN "calls back" this function.

With Compaq Visual Fortran 6.5 (CVF) this went fine.

With IVF this produces an exception error:

'the instruction "0x00403102 referenced memory

at "0x011e2c20". The memory could not be "read"'

When the line "call DelphiLijn" (the "call-back") is left out, it runs perfect under both CVF and IVF.

Settings in Project / FtnLib3 properties... / Fortran / External Procedures:

calling convention = STCALL, REFERENCE

changing this into "C, REFERENCE" (both in Fortran and in Delphi) does not help.

What's wrong ?

Dirk Jan Eertink

======== the Fortran-code ================

! FtnLib3.f90

!

subroutine DELPHICALLSFORTRAN(testfunc)

!DEC$ ATTRIBUTES STDCALL, DLLEXPORT::DELPHICALLSFORTRAN

!DEC$ ATTRIBUTES ALIAS :'DELPHICALLSFORTRAN' :: DELPHICALLSFORTRAN

!DEC$ ATTRIBUTES REFERENCE :: testfunc

pointer (testfunc, DelphiLijn)

character thistime*8, thisdate*10

call date(thisdate)

call time(thistime)

open(6,file='testfile.txt',status='unknown',form='formatted')

write(6,'(4A)') ' Fortran (called by Delphi) made this file on ', thisdate, ' at ', thistime

close(6)

call DelphiLijn

stop

end subroutine DELPHICALLSFORTRAN

======== the Delphi-code ===============

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unit delfiunit;

{

This program tests Delphi-programm calling a DLL, written in Fortran and

compiled with the Intel Visual Fortran 9.1.033 compiler.

This DLL contains a "call back": Delphi tells the Fortran-DLL the adress

of the Delphi-function "testfunc" and then the Fortran-DLL "calls back"

this Delphi-function.

This is working perfect when the Fortran part is compiled with the

Compaq Visual Fortran Compiler 6.5.

Compiling with the Intel Visual Fortran compiler 0.1.033 produces no

compilation messages, but running the Delphi-program produces a nasty error.

}

interface

uses

// windows, messages, variants,

// classes, graphics, controls, stdctrls,

sysutils, forms, dialogs;

face="Courier New">type

tform1 = class(tform)

end;

var

form1: tform1;

implementation

{$R *.dfm}

// declaration of Fortran-routine:

procedure DelphiCallsFortran(var testfunc: pointer); stdcall; external 'ftnlib3.dll' name 'DELPHICALLSFORTRAN';

procedure testfunc; stdcall;

// this procedure will be called by the fortran-dll

var

f: textFile;

begin

showmessage(' success !');

end;

var

testfuncPointer : pointer;

begin

// tell the Fortran-routine "DELPHICALLSFORTRAN" the adress of

// the Delphi-routine "test":

testfuncPointer := @testfunc;

showmessage(' try to call ...');

DelphiCallsFortran(testfuncPointer);

end.

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Try removing the line:

!DEC$ ATTRIBUTES REFERENCE :: testfunc

That's it !

So, by value, not by reference: I needed also to adapt the Fortran-settings from "STDCALL, REFENCE" to "STDCALL" and in the

Delphi-source in "Procedure DELPHICALLSFORTRAN(var testfunc: stdcall)" to remove the "var " ("var" = by reference).

And it works. Now I'm going to test if this works also in de rather complicated "real world"/

Thanks a lot.

Typically, when a procedure is passed, the address of the procedure is passed by value. (You can think of this as the procedure

is passed by reference.) When you use the passed argument as an address, then you need to make sure that it is accepted as

by value.

If you are passing other types of arguments which you're going to modify, then those have to be passed by reference.

DELPHI, like pretty much all of the "interpreted" languages on Windows, uses STDCALL as the default calling convention. How

individual arguments are passed depends on how you declare them.

For more complete information about compiler optimizations, see our Optimization Notice.

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