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From: ftw@masscomp.UUCP (Farrell Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: passing variable numbers of arguments
Message-ID: <319@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 89 16:03:46 GMT
References: <899@thor.stolaf.edu> <15341@mimsy.UUCP> <449@marob.MASA.COM> <9321@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1002@vsi.COM>
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In article <1002@vsi.COM> friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>
>The Zilog Z8000 machine I used in school had an "efficient"
>arg passing mechanism that passed the first few args in
>registers.

Some C compilers for more "conventional" machines also pass arguments
this way.  For instance, the Microware C compiler for their OS-9/68K
operating system will usually pass the first couple of args in d0 and d1,
and the rest on the stack.  Made for an interesting varargs...


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