Re: BUG #2292: Calling conventions in docs

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 13:08:17 +0000,
Adriaan van Os <pgres(at)microbizz(dot)nl> wrote:
>
> Section 32.9.5. Writing Code of the 8.1 docs says:
>
> >>While it may be possible to load functions written in languages other than
> C into PostgreSQL, this is usually difficult (when it is possible at all)
> because other languages, such as C++, FORTRAN, or Pascal often do not follow
> the same calling convention as C. That is, other languages do not pass
> argument and return values between functions in the same way<<
>
> This is nonsense. GNU Pascal and GNU C use the same calling conventions. In
> fact, they share the same compiler-backend.

You seem to be assuming that Postgres will always be built using gcc. That
isn't the case.