Re: Where's the function result?

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Marco van de Voort wrote:
> On 2006-12-15, Eli Gottlieb <eligottlieb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I'm calling some code built with the Pascal calling convention modifier
>> from assembly, and I need to know where the function result will be
>> stored. 
> 
> Compiler, architecture specific. Usually results smaller or equal to the
> wordsize are returned in a default register, which usually is the same
for
> both C and Pascal CC's. An exception are architectures that return
pointers
> in different registers than values (like m68k)
> 
> For larger results, the strategies differ.
Is there a calling convention that is compiler independent?  I know I'm
using the x86.

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