Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!bionet!ames!indri!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: want to know Message-ID: <10763@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 17 Aug 89 15:17:27 GMT References: <8487@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <2980@solo9.cs.vu.nl> <182@sunquest.UUCP> <14269@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1496@l.cc.purdue.edu> <15373@rphroy.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 8 In article <15373@rphroy.UUCP> tkacik@rphroy.UUCP (Tom Tkacik) writes: >Does anybody know what 'entry' was supposed to do? Yes, it was intended for the same thing as Fortran's alternate function entry point facility. The usual example is sincos (one function with separate entries for sin() and cos()). C's "entry" was rarely, if ever, implemented, primarily because with file-static functions it was really unnecessary.