The ALIAS directive lets you specify an alternate external name to be used when referring to external objects such as subroutines and functions. This can be useful when compiling applications written for other platforms that have different naming conventions.
The ALIAS directive takes the following form:
cDEC$ ALIAS name, external-name
The ALIAS directive affects only the external name used for references to the specified internal name.
Names that are not acceptable to the linker will cause link-time errors.
For details on the linker for OpenVMS systems, see the OpenVMS Linker Utility Manual;
on Tru64 UNIX systems, see ld(1)
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