Re: "standard" C calling convention?

"Andrew" <andrew.higham@blueyonder.co.uk>
21 Feb 2003 00:47:13 -0500

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From: "Andrew" <andrew.higham@blueyonder.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 21 Feb 2003 00:47:13 -0500
Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder)
References: 03-02-072
Keywords: C, design
Posted-Date: 21 Feb 2003 00:47:13 EST

"Peter Seibel" <peter@javamonkey.com> wrote in message
> People often refer to the "standard C calling convention", usually as
> opposed to some other calling convention that a compiler also
> supports. ...


As the moderator pointed out the Unix ABIs define standard calling
conventions. The ix86 abi is at
http://www.sco.com/developers/devspecs/abi386-4.pdf. Chapter 3
describes the calling conventions. This is a de-jure standard for
SVR4 Unix, but I think it is pretty compatible with the de-facto
standard on other OSes running ix86.

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