Re: GNAT parameter passing, C-style?

["Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.FrankLho@rcn.com>]

"Martin Krischik" <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message
news:1083935.L00VuFytUj@linux1.krischik.com...
> Luke A. Guest wrote:
>
> No. IBM and Microsoft for example went to what you call "Pascal"
convention
> when moving from 16bit to 32bit for OS and Compiler. They only use "C"
> convention when you explicitly request it. Or when a variable parameter
> list is used.

That's not quite correct. The 16-bit Windows API used the Pascal calling
convention for every function that did not have a variable parameter list.
In the Win32 API, Microsoft used the STDCALL calling convention for all
functions that did not have a variable parameter list. The STDCALL
convention was a mix of the Pascal and C conventions: the parameters were
pushed on the stack in reverse order (i.e. the C order), but they were
popped by the called function (as in Pascal).

As to the compiler, there are command line options that specify what calling
convention is used for a function when no convention is indicated in the
code. In the absense of said command line parameters and any specification
of calling conventions in the code, the default convention is C (parameters
pushed in reverse order, and popped by the caller).