stdcall

[Ross Paterson]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:02:18PM +0200, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> Dnia wto 22. lipca 2003 13:52, Ross Paterson napisa?:
> 
> > The proposal was to have this in addition to ccall.  This convention
> > is currently called CALLCONV in the network, GLUT and OpenGL packages,
> > with hacks to turn it into ccall or stdcall.  I think it makes sense to
> > regularize it as stdcall.
> 
> In gcc on Unix you can declare a function as "stdcall" and it will change the 
> calling convention accordingly. I don't know of any library that uses it, but 
> this shows that "stdcall" is used as a name of this particular calling 
> convention for ix86 even on Unix.

OK, so the thing I want shouldn't be called stdcall, but it would be useful
(and is already being used).