cdecl keyword

[David Collier-Brown]

  The parameter-passing is something to look up at what we typically call
link time. In fact, at the time the two routines are bound together,
either before linking (at a cost to the compiler, as epitomized by
Ada[1,2]) or during linking (at a higher cost to a typically kludgy
program). It should neither be programmer-visible nor interpreted (as
I once did on an iAPX-something-86)

 --dave c-b
[1] Tm, The God of War (Ada Joint Program Office).
[2] It actually does just that in an early Honeywell implementation.
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