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From: lee@fortune.UUCP (Ed Lee)
Newsgroups: net.arch,net.micro.68k,net.micro.16k
Subject: nargs and more ...
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Date: Wed, 4-Jan-84 18:43:32 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  4 18:43:32 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Jan-84 02:14:07 EST
Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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The compiler knows about nargs of the routines (some C compilers put them
in comments ) which are useful for the optimizer.  Unfortunely, the 68k
has no good way of using this information.  The 16k, however, can use
"ret const" to adjust the stack before returning to the calling routine.
This requires the called routine to handle the stack frame instead of the
calling routine.  This is almost the best way to handle it, if not for
the problems of variable args of the standard idiotic C library's print
and scanf.

  c  / 			Ed Lee
 C. /_.  	{amd70, ihnp4, harpo}!fortune!lee