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From: mwg@inxsvcs.UUCP (Phil Blecker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: cdecl on a PC
Summary: 1 word (cdecl) referring to 2 things
Message-ID: <142@inxsvcs.UUCP>
Date: 27 Nov 88 16:46:00 GMT
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In article <824@starfish.Convergent.COM>, cdold@starfish.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold) writes:
> From article <5282@edsews.EDS.COM>, by charette@edsews.EDS.COM (Mark A. Charette):
> > After using cdecl at work for some time and bemoaning the fact I didn't have
> > it on my PC at home, I finally decided to try compiling it at home using
> > MSC 5.1 under DOS.
> When I saw this request, I thought I was confused.
> Now I know I'm confused.
> If I open a QuickC file, and put cdecl(

The first cdecl refers to a program written in C.

The second cdecl is a keyword in Microsoft's C language. (It's their way of
declaring that a function was written in the C language, or a function
that obeys C calling conventions -- you can look it up in their docs).
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