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    <p>yes you are right, thank you!<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/11/2018 12:29 AM,
      <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vuott@tiscali.it">vuott@tiscali.it</a> wrote:<br>
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      <div><span id="result_box"><span>When the identifier of an
            external function coincides with the identifier of a Gambas
            function, it is necessary to change the name of the external
            function and to use Exec.</span></span></div>
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      <div><span id="result_box"><span>Ad exemplum:</span></span></div>
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      <div><span id="result_box"><span>' int abs (int number)<br>
            Public Extern abs_C(number As Integer) As Integer Exec "abs"</span></span></div>
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      <div><span id="result_box"><span><span id="result_box"><span>You
                use the name abs_C, but tell Gambas that it has to use
                the real abs () function.</span></span><br>
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      <p>Il 10.06.2018 21:59 Jussi Lahtinen ha scritto:</p>
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          <div>Gambas does the conversions for you, thus interger and
            long are just subsets of float. In C that is completely
            different thing.</div>
          <div>In other words, Gambas Abs does everything what int abs,
            long abs and float abs combined does in C.</div>
          <div>Jussi</div>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 10:52 PM,
            Demosthenes Koptsis <span><<a
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                <p>just for compatibility of porting libc</p>
                <p>there are int abs, long abs, single abs, float abs</p>
                <p>Gambas abs is only for floats</p>
                <p>not great function but it gave us the bug to
                  autocomplete system!</p>
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                    <div class="m_-2568333697185410534moz-cite-prefix">On
                      06/10/2018 10:30 PM, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:</div>
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                        <div>Yes, but why bother? Gambas already has
                          abs().</div>
                        <div>Jussi</div>
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                        <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at
                          10:09 PM, Demosthenes Koptsis <span><<a
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                            padding-left: 1ex;">is this correct?<br>
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                            'int abs (int number)<br>
                            Public Extern {abs}(number As Integer) As
                            Integer<br>
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