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Subject: Re: GNAT parameter passing, C-style?
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Frank J. Lhota wrote:
> Does the Sun compiler have a command line option for compiling vanilla C
> programs? This would an ideal solution to handling both legacy and ANSI C
> code.

This is vanilla C for that platform. Varargs functions are called the
same way. The function itself will then muck about with the registers as
needed to make things work.