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From: schoet@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal Rumor
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Date: Sun, 5-Apr-87 18:07:24 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr  5 18:07:24 1987
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>>I am under the (possibly wrong!) impression that the Amiga's intuition,
>>exec, and dos functions have been written with C interfaces.
>
>	All of the Amiga's libraries were designed for easy access by
>assembly language.  That is, all parameters are passed in registers 
>rather than on the stack.  The libraries are also designed, however, to
> ... take C arguments on the stacks and place them in registers 
> before making the library call.
>					-Matt

  And then Intuition takes the values out of the registers and
pushes them back on the stack.  ho hum.

Steve