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Re: Calling conventions in the C++ standard

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On 09/30/2013 09:05 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
>
> Does the C++11 standard mandate anything regarding the use of calling
> conventions ( __cdecl, _-fascall, __stdcall etc. ) in regard to
> functions or is a purely implementation dependent idea ?

The standard describes the behavior that is supposed to occur when a
well-formed program is translated and executed using a conforming
implementation, but how that behavior is achieved is outside the scope
of the standard, it's up to each implementor to decide how to achieve it
on any given platform.
C++ is intended to be implementable on a wide variety of platforms.
Specifying anything about the calling convention would unnecessarily
prevent the implementation of C on hardware where the mandated calling
convention is either a bad choice, or possibly even a meaningless concept.
--
James Kuyper


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Calling conventions in the C++ standard Edward Diener <eldiener@tropicsoft.invalid> - 2013-09-30 19:05 -0600
  Re: Calling conventions in the C++ standard James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2013-10-01 19:16 -0600
  Re: Calling conventions in the C++ standard Daniel Krügler <daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com> - 2013-10-01 19:15 -0600
  Re: Calling conventions in the C++ standard Helmut Zeisel <zei2011@liwest.at> - 2013-10-10 18:10 -0700

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