On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:58:03, Chris Hanson <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Chris Espinosa 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.
>
> With enough function arguments ? or the right combination of types of
> function arguments, if I remember correctly ? PowerPC still requires
> arguments to be pushed onto the stack. However, the PowerPC ABI
> declared that all arguments must be pushed in left-to-right order for
> interop purposes, keeping the "pascal" keyword meaningless.
left-to-right? Is that not a problem for var-arg functions?
Mike
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