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Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls

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On 03/ 6/17 08:12 AM, supercat@casperkitty.com wrote:
> On Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 4:50:58 PM UTC-6, Ian Collins wrote:
>> On 03/ 5/17 11:33 AM, supercat wrote:
>>> The pattern was established as common on C compilers before the C89 Standard
>>> was published, and on many platforms C compilers would use the pattern if
>>> practical, so that functions written with different compilers could call
>>> each other.  It was never established as a part of an uppercase-S "Standard"
>>> but in an era where compiler simplicity and interoperability were more
>>> important than maximum compiled-code efficiency it worked well.
>>
>> The pattern in question is the platform ABI, which has nothing to do
>> with the C standard, or what came before.
>
> Ever since C became popular, it has become commonplace for entities defining
> new platforms to define an ABI which should be used by C compilers.

<snip>

I still don't see how any of this is related to the OP, or the mythical 
past you keep referring to....

-- 
Ian

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Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls Alla <vitale.alla@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 14:40 +0300
  Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-03-04 03:53 -0800
    Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls Alla <vitale.alla@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 14:58 +0300
      Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-03-04 04:04 -0800
        Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls Alla <vitale.alla@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 15:12 +0300
    Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls mark.bluemel@gmail.com - 2017-03-06 00:41 -0800
  Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-04 13:30 +0100
    Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls Alla <vitale.alla@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 15:34 +0300
      Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-04 15:23 +0100
        Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls Alla <vitale.alla@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 18:22 +0300
          Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 07:53 -0800
        Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls Alla <vitale.alla@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 19:29 +0300
  Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-03-04 11:18 -0500
    Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls Alla <vitale.alla@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 20:10 +0300
      Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-03-04 13:18 -0500
        Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls Alla <vitale.alla@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 22:43 +0300
    Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-04 14:33 -0800
      Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-03-05 11:50 +1300
        Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-05 11:12 -0800
          Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-03-06 17:11 +1300
            Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-06 07:23 -0800
              Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-06 17:22 +0100
                Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-06 16:40 +0000
                Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls jm.bourguet@gmail.com - 2017-03-06 09:04 -0800
                Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-06 17:18 +0000
                Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2017-03-06 11:22 -0700
                Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2017-03-06 09:58 -0800
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    Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls Alla <vitale.alla@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 22:46 +0300
  Re: Stackoverflow, and how C uses stack to remember function calls Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-04 12:25 -0800

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