Messages in this thread | | | From | Peter Samuelson <> | Subject | Re: Patch to remove undefined C code | Date | Tue, 17 Oct 2000 07:42:31 +0000 |
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[Matti Aarnio] > > That depends mainly on question: Does your stack grow up or down ?
[Ben Pfaff] > No it doesn't. It depends mainly on whether the ABI for the machine > says that arguments are pushed onto the stack in left-to-right or > right-to-left order. You could do either on x86, for instance, and > it has nothing to do with whether the x86 stack grows up or down.
So, if you choose left-to-right, how do you implement varargs? Keep in mind that prototypes are optional. I bet anything your solution is slower and more complex than right-to-left, as all known compilers do.
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