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From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
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Subject: Re: cdecl keyword
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Date: 14 Apr 88 12:59:12 GMT
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Posted: Thu Apr 14 08:59:12 1988
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  The parameter-passing is something to look up at what we typically call
link time. In fact, at the time the two routines are bound together,
either before linking (at a cost to the compiler, as epitomized by
Ada[1,2]) or during linking (at a higher cost to a typically kludgy
program). It should neither be programmer-visible nor interpreted (as
I once did on an iAPX-something-86)

 --dave c-b
[1] Tm, The God of War (Ada Joint Program Office).
[2] It actually does just that in an early Honeywell implementation.
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