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From: tanner@ki4pv.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: cdecl keyword
Message-ID: <7046@ki4pv.uucp>
Date: 8 Apr 88 15:05:44 GMT
References: <1238@wjvax.UUCP> <297@ho7cad.ATT.COM> <1242@wjvax.UUCP> <185@premise.ZONE1.COM>
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Keywords: cdecl MicroSoft C keywords

In article <185@premise.ZONE1.COM>, chang@premise.ZONE1.COM (John Chang) writes:
) The calling convention we're talking about here isn't call-by-name or
) call-by-value.  It's simply the order in which parameters are passed
) on the stack.  And in C, that order *must* be right to left in order
) to support variable length functions like printf.

Not true.  I remember many dark moons ago (real-world example, theory
experts please ignore) a compiler, on a z-80 yet, which pushed its
args left-to-right.  It handled [a pre-determined list of] variadic
functions as special cases, pushing (invisibly to the user) an extra
word containing the argument count.
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