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From: Jano <nono@celes.unizar.es>
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Subject: Re: GNAT parameter passing, C-style?
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Frank J. Lhota dice...
> "Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
> news:1072899508.453543@master.nyc.kbcfp.com...
> > 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.
> 
> Now I get it! The problem is that I have spent most of my career with the
> Intel architecture, where the paucity of registers preclude any extensive
> use of registers for parameter passing. Of course, passing parameters by
> registers avoids all of these issues, since nothing is pushed onto or popped
> off the stack.

I remember from my days of assembler of some compiler which used 
frequently the AX register for the first parameter and function results. 
Though it was maybe a Pascal compiler %-)

Just a curiosity.