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Subject: Re: GNAT parameter passing, C-style?
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Luke A. Guest wrote:
> But as I remember, it's ther same again, if the
> registers run out the stack is used in reverse as usual.

Even if parameters are passed on the stack, there is no need
to process the arguments from right to left. You can just
subtract the appropriate amount from the stack pointer and
then fill in that space by processing the arguments from left
to right.