Re: Pascal Calling Convention

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Mar 23, 6:38 pm, ytomino <aghi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mar 24, 6:37 am, Shark8 <onewingedsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I was looking around for a way to use the Pascal calling convention in
> > GNAT; particularly because I thought it might be nice to do the GUI-
> > stuff in good old Delphi 5 and the application itself in Ada. All
> > easily doable via DLL or, possibly, through the $L compiler directive
> > which specifies a .obj file to link to.
>
> In the first, Delphi's default calling convertion is "register" (=
> fastcall),
> not pascal. And, GNAT does not support fastcall,
> moreever fastcall of gcc is different than fastcall of Windows.
> Probably you have to change calling convertion in Delphi-side.
>
> http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE/en/Procedures_and_Functio...

Yep, I know that it's not the default.
But it *does* have Pascal calling convention capability.
And, to be honest, I *don't want* variable parameters passed in the
OS;
so, as someone observed, if the right-to-left parameter passing is the
only way for it to be handled then designing the OS in such a way so
as
to preclude even that possibility sounds like a good idea to me.

{Like Null-exclusion or subranges; I can design out possible errors/
complexities.}

> > -- I found a utility to convert between .o and .obj; so that's not a
> > problem. Though if someone knows a way to
> > -- have GNAT emit .obj files instead of .o I'd like to hear it.
>
> That sounds good!
> How it work about gcc-runtime? (memomry manager, exception handling,
> etc)

I'm not sure.
I haven't "played around" with it enough yet.