passing variable numbers of arguments

[Farrell Woods]

In article <1002 at vsi.COM> friedl at vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>
>The Zilog Z8000 machine I used in school had an "efficient"
>arg passing mechanism that passed the first few args in
>registers.

Some C compilers for more "conventional" machines also pass arguments
this way.  For instance, the Microware C compiler for their OS-9/68K
operating system will usually pass the first couple of args in d0 and d1,
and the rest on the stack.  Made for an interesting varargs...


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