portability

[Bob Larson]

In article <16573 at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes:
>Note that 'pascal' 'fortran', and 'cdecl' exist to allow linking with
>modules written in these languages and compiled by Microsoft compilers
>for these languages under MSDOS.

This is true only of fortran and pascal.  cdecl is a keyword only because
microsoft was to lazy to add a few #defines to their programs.  It does
nothing that could not be accomplished better in the preprocessing phase.

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