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From: rick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini)
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Subject: Re: next the next NeXT
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Date: 2 Feb 90 14:46:03 GMT
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In article <ROBERTL.90Feb2013012@bucsf.bu.edu> robertl@bucsf.bu.edu (Robert La Ferla) writes:
>If only life was that simple...  If NeXT were to go to the Motorola 88k series
>any code with variable arguments is likely to break since the 88000 puts these
>in registers.  How do you take an address of a register?  

Read varargs.h of a MIPS-chip based system and you see how.
It is complicated, but works.  Address of subroutine arguments don't
mean anything in C because it is pass by value.  The value can be an
address such as an array.