Re: "standard" C calling convention?

"Mike Ludwig" <mgl8@attbi.com>
21 Feb 2003 00:43:42 -0500

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From: "Mike Ludwig" <mgl8@attbi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 21 Feb 2003 00:43:42 -0500
Organization: AT&T Broadband
References: 03-02-072 03-02-079
Keywords: C, design, comment
Posted-Date: 21 Feb 2003 00:43:41 EST

> No, absolutely not. It is wildly different between operating systems
> and often compiler vendors and architectures. You don't want to know
> about the history of C calling conventions under IBM MVS, I can assure
> you :-)


Hey, as one of the key co-designers of the latest XPLINK (and
hopefully last) calling convention for C/C++ on IBM/390 I would
actually say the history is a very interesting. This latest design
was done for performance reasons but with a strong thought to
compatibility (hence some of the complexities of the design). The
previous calling conventions were also chosen for valid reasons.


Mike.
[Is the history written down anywhere, or is it just in the folklore?
-John]

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