-=> On 21 Jan 96  04:04:50 Mario Semo said to Paul Edwards <=-


 MS> Linkage        Name Mapping          Linkage
 MS> ----------     ------------          -------
 MS> C++            f(x) = mangle(x)      register/stack, R-L, ...
 MS> OPTLINK        f(x) = x              register/stack, R-L, ...
 MS> SYSTEM         f(x) = x              stack, R-L, ...
 MS> FAR16 PASCAL   f(x) = strupr(x)      stack, L-R, ...
 MS> FAR16 CDECL    f(x) = strcat("_", x) stack, R-L, ...
 MS> FAR16 FASTCALL f(x) = strcat("{at}", x) register/stack, R-L, ...

 MS> where R-L means parameters are pushed right-to-left and L-R, left-to-
 MS> right.

Wouldn't it be great if this was put in the manual. Its so much easier to
understand than the stuff that is there! Us programmers are really good at
understanding programming terminology. (But we still need the explanation
of what happens to the registers, cos debugging is impossible without.)


Please send a copy of this message to whoever is responsible for the manual.

Andrew


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