Re: Calling libraries from assembler.

Robert Redelmeier wrote:
> 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)

AFAIR you could manage to "change the value of 5"(*) on some early 
compilers by calling a function which modifies one of its arguments, 
with the constant as an argument ;-)

(*) A question from the "Hacker Test". No, I never did that, but I did 
program while intoxicated ;-)
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