Re: Native Code vs PCode OT


"J French" <erewhon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:431ecd25.15618731@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 13:04:11 -0500, "Ralph" <nt_consulting64@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >[Way, way, off topic.]
> >[My apologies to the rest of the group, but I find this difficult to
ignore.
> >Perhaps related to early Germanic elimination training. <g>]
>
> Just for clarification :-
>
> Directive Parameter order Clean-up Passes parameters in registers?
> register Left-to-right Routine Yes
> pascal Left-to-right Routine No
> cdecl Right-to-left Caller No
> stdcall Right-to-left Routine No
> safecall Right-to-left Routine No
>
> There is a rumour that parts of MSDOS 1.0 (AKA QDOS from Seattle
> Systems) was written in Pascal

Also, it is interesting to point out to those that claim that using the
_pascal calling convention is a sign of a "Pascal language" influence, that
_pascal is not the default calling convention for most Pascal compilers.
Register is. <g>

-ralph


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