Calling Convention

 

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This section describes the process that one function (caller) makes call into another function (callee).

For prototyped functions, all arguments are converted to the expected callee types before passing.

• Parameter Passing

• Varargs

• Unprototyped Functions

• Return Values

• Caller/Callee Saved Registers

• Function Pointers

• Floating-Point Support for Older Code (Visual C++)

• FpCsr

• MXCSR

• setjmp/longjump

See Also

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