Re: Calling libraries from assembler.

In alt.lang.asm Frank Kotler <spamtrap@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in part:
> I'm not familiar with Fortran. How do they do it?

FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) is the oldest wide-spread HLL,
dating from 1957.  It is still used for scientific coding.

>From an ASM PoV, FORTRAN is call-by-address (not the `c` call
by value), usually callee pop if the stack is used at all (many
of the early machines did not have hardware stack instructions.

> Unless I'm mistaken, changing ".model flat stdcall" to ".model flat C" 
> would automatically adjust your code... with certain assemblers...

It could if the calls are implemented via a macro like `invoke`.
If the reg/stack load is done manually, then the assembler
is going to have to guess or fiddle with code more than 
many people around here would find acceptable.

-- Robert