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From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: variable number of strings passed to function - how?
Message-ID: <6199@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 88 17:14:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: june.6199
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henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>[ arguments passed: forwards, backwards, registers, ... ]

This probably seems like a silly question, but are there any compilers
that pass arguments globally?  Things of the form

		static void
	foo (m, n)
		int m, n;
	{
		if (m==0)
			return;
		m = bletch (m,n);
		foo (m,n);
	}

Would win from this.  I doubt that these account for a
significant part of the usage.
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