Re: Calling libraries from assembler.

Terence wrote:

> An interesting point in Frank Kotler's posting, is who gets to clean
> up the stack.
> Here Frank is doing it in the main program (obviously because the
> called rountines don't do this for him).
> But I was "brought up" on the Microsoft standard of the CALLED
> subprogram doing a RET N operation to clear the stack. All my hand-
> wriiten subroutine include this, beuase my main program is a Microsoft
> Fortran program which folows my description of the stack
> responsibility.
> 
> So I assume Miscroft chnaged it's mind at some point in time, because
> obvious again, the referred called services aboove are Microsoft-
> written Windows service.

No, the program is for X Windows, whose interface uses the so called "C
calling convention", where it's the caller's job to clean-up the stack.