Re: JIT pluggability (ABI Issues)

[Patrik Reali]

Hi!

What I meant was the order parameters are pushed on the stack. Please 
excuse my previous underspecified statement.

As a side node, pushing parameters right-to-left makes the implementation 
of open parameter lists much simpler (maybe this is another reason C tends 
to use it?).

-Patrik



--On Montag, 12. Januar 2004 12:59 -0800 Per Bothner <address@hidden> 
wrote:

> Patrik Reali wrote:
>
> > Calling Convention
> > * left-to-right (as in java) or right-to-left (as in C)
>
> Huh?  Argument evaluation order is not really part of the ABI.
> C has *unspecified* evaluation order, so many implementations
> have evaluated them right-to-left because that's the way the
> stack grows (on most C implementations).  But this is less
> relevant with optimizing compilers and register-based calling
> conventions.
> --
>         --Per Bothner
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