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 Passing Basic User-Defined Type to C by Far Reference - Q27301
 
 The following example demonstrates how to pass a user-defined type
 from compiled Basic to Microsoft C by far reference.
 
 This information applies to the Standard and Professional Editions of
 Microsoft Visual Basic version 1.0 for MS-DOS and to Microsoft C
 Compiler version 7.0.
 
 To compile this example in Visual Basic for MS-DOS, execute the
 following commands:
 
    BC BMODULE.BAS;
    CL -c -AM CMODULE.C
    LINK BMODULE.OBJ CMODULE.OBJ;
 
 Basic Program
 -------------
 
 TYPE record
    a AS INTEGER
    b AS STRING * 20
    c AS SINGLE
 END TYPE
 
 DECLARE SUB TypeReference CDECL (BYVAL p1o AS INTEGER, _
                                  BYVAL p1s AS INTEGER)
 
 CLS
 DIM element AS record
 element.a = 128
 element.b = DATE$ + CHR$(0)
 element.c = 39.6
 CALL TypeReference(VARPTR(element), VARSEG(element))
 LOCATE 4, 1
 END
 
 C Routine
 ---------
 
 #include <stdio.h>
 
 struct record {
    int a;
    char b[20];
    float c;
 };
 
 void TypeReference(struct record far *element) {
    printf("Record.A = %d\", element->a);
    printf("Record.B = %s\", element->b);
    printf("Record.C = %f\", element->c);
 }
 
 Output
 ------
 
 Record.A = 128
 Record.B = 02-02-1988
 Record.C = 39.599998