well, for one, you might actually want to link against some pascal libraries on unix. and hence need stdcall. although, that would probably require other FFI extensions anyway. Another case where it might be useful is that it is not unheard of to link against windows DLLs on unix. that is how mplayer is able to use windows codecs to play video for instance. John On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:02:18PM +0200, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
Dnia wto 22. lipca 2003 13:52, Ross Paterson napisał:
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.
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