Custom calling conventions

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 21-02-2012 20:43, Manu wrote:
> On 21 February 2012 19:10, Alex Rønne Petersen <xtzgzorex at gmail.com
> <mailto:xtzgzorex at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 21-02-2012 18:03, Manu wrote:
>
>         On 21 February 2012 16:59, Michel Fortin
>         <michel.fortin at michelf.com <mailto:michel.fortin at michelf.com>
>         <mailto:michel.fortin at michelf.__com
>         <mailto:michel.fortin at michelf.com>>> wrote:
>
>             On 2012-02-21 11:03:09 +0000, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com
>         <mailto:turkeyman at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:turkeyman at gmail.com <mailto:turkeyman at gmail.com>>> said:
>
>         Interesting point.
>         Java (or any VM based language) can't hard link to the binary, so it
>         never could try and call back in through an extern-ed function
>         directly,
>
>
>     Sure it could. Why wouldn't it be able to? This is how extern +
>     DllImport works in C#.
>
>
> But that only works because C# has DLL support, which knows about the C
> calling convention, so you just need to export an extern(C) in that
> case, like any regular DLL.

Surely Java 'native' methods require the native functions to conform to 
some calling convention?

-- 
- Alex