cdecl keyword

[Dr. T. Andrews]

In article <185 at premise.ZONE1.COM>, chang at premise.ZONE1.COM (John Chang) writes:
) The calling convention we're talking about here isn't call-by-name or
) call-by-value.  It's simply the order in which parameters are passed
) on the stack.  And in C, that order *must* be right to left in order
) to support variable length functions like printf.

Not true.  I remember many dark moons ago (real-world example, theory
experts please ignore) a compiler, on a z-80 yet, which pushed its
args left-to-right.  It handled [a pre-determined list of] variadic
functions as special cases, pushing (invisibly to the user) an extra
word containing the argument count.
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