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From: mem@sii.UUCP (Mark Mallett)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k
Subject: oh no nargs again
Message-ID: <369@sii.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Jan-84 07:49:42 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  4 07:49:42 1984
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Unfortunately,
you can't figure out the number of arguments to a function (on a 68000)
by looking at the stack frame, as Nathan Myers asks.  The frame pointer
gives only the same information as the stack pointer at entry to a
function, and at best can tell you how much local stack space is being
used by a procedure at any moment.  This doesn't include arguments passed
from the caller.

Mark E. Mallett
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