On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:10:28, Chris Espinosa <email@hidden> wrote:
> The 'pascal' keyword actually became a no-op in the transition to
> PowerPC more than ten years ago. It specified whether arguments
> should be pushed on the calling stack in left-to-right or right-to-
> left order. Because PowerPC passes function arguments in registers,
> 'pascal' is meaningless in the PowerPC ABI.
Yes. "Because" is a bit out of place here, I could imagine right-to-left
order of registers as well :) Besides params are still passed on the
stack sometimes, e.g. if there are too many of them.
>> or forming a pascal string using another sort of escape code (like
>> octal and counting the length yourself).
>
> Ick.
No, this is "ick":
UniChar unicode[] = {
'H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'W', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd', '!'
};
:)
Mike
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