Re: Where are returned values stored?

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <60328483.MtZnWf8h2m@linux1.krischik.com>, Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> 
>>  > Interesting to consider this with a recursive procedure, but yes, it
>>  > should work.
>>  >
>>  > JAF
>> 
>> Calling Conventions:
>> 
>> If this indeed happens (on a given platform), I would think
>> that the calling convention used is +critical+. For example,
>> if you forced an Ada routine to use the C calling convention,
>> I would bet that on most platforms, that all return values
>> must be _copied_ or placed on the heap (temporarily). At least
>> this would be true for strings/arrays etc. where the size
>> was not known in advance.

Just jumping in, this seems to be an OS-independent discussion.

> The "C" calling convention places the return value inside a hidden static
> variable. A pointer to this variable is then returned.

I am not sure what you mean by "the" C calling convention.

Certainly on VMS C obeys the OS calling convention for all inter-module
calls, just as other languages do.