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From: "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: GNAT parameter passing, C-style?
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 13:29:27 GMT
Date: 2004-01-02T13:29:27+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <XmeJb.16930$x34.155@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: G96Jb.30096$tY5.28719@nwrdny01.gnilink.net

"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
news:G96Jb.30096$tY5.28719@nwrdny01.gnilink.net...
> Frank J. Lhota wrote:
> > Yes, but what about the callee?
>
> What *about* the calee? It sees the arguments the same
> way, with the first at the top of the stack and the others
> lower down. Come on, work it out for yourself. There's no
> difference between pushing from right to left, or reserving
> space then filling from left to right. The resulting picture
> in memory is the same.

OK, I get the picture. We're beyond the discussion of the convention, and
are now discussing how the implementation is implemented. Basically what
you're saying is that one can "process" arguments from left to right and get
the same effect as pushing the argurments from right to left. On that point,
I totally agree.





  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-02 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-26 10:37 GNAT parameter passing, C-style? Luke A. Guest
2003-12-26 14:20 ` Marin David Condic
2003-12-26 14:51   ` Hyman Rosen
2003-12-26 15:07     ` Marin David Condic
2003-12-26 15:39       ` Luke A. Guest
2003-12-26 17:03         ` Hyman Rosen
2003-12-26 17:08           ` Luke A. Guest
2003-12-26 17:27             ` Luke A. Guest
2003-12-26 18:21               ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-12-26 19:06                 ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-12-31 10:23                 ` Keith Thompson
2003-12-31 14:45                   ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-12-31 15:05                     ` Hyman Rosen
2003-12-31 16:30                       ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-12-31 17:24                         ` Hyman Rosen
2003-12-31 19:05                           ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-12-31 19:38                             ` Hyman Rosen
2003-12-31 20:47                               ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-12-31 21:35                                 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-01-01  2:50                                   ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-01-01  5:20                                     ` Luke A. Guest
2004-01-01 16:06                                       ` Hyman Rosen
2004-01-01 16:32                                         ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-01-01 16:43                                           ` Hyman Rosen
2004-01-02  0:24                                             ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-01-02  4:09                                               ` Hyman Rosen
2004-01-02 13:29                                                 ` Frank J. Lhota [this message]
2004-01-01  5:17                                   ` Luke A. Guest
2004-01-01  5:09                                 ` Luke A. Guest
2004-01-02  1:17                                   ` tmoran
2004-01-01 17:18                                 ` Jano
2004-01-02  0:25                                   ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-01-07  6:37                         ` Dave Thompson
2004-01-01  3:38                       ` Marin David Condic
2004-01-01  5:28                         ` Luke A. Guest
2004-01-01 14:17                           ` Marin David Condic
2004-01-01 16:20                             ` Jeff C,
2004-01-02 13:47                               ` Marin David Condic
2004-01-05 21:06                     ` Keith Thompson
2004-01-06  3:42                       ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-01-06 20:54                         ` Keith Thompson
2004-01-06 23:45                           ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-01-06 13:46                       ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-12-27 14:22             ` Marin David Condic
2003-12-26 17:10         ` Martin Krischik
2003-12-26 19:04           ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-12-26 18:01   ` Georg Bauhaus
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