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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:37:31 -0800
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Subject: [9fans] Non-stack-based calling conventions
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>
> The calling conventions I have seen are the ccall, stdcall (Windows'
> slightly modified version of the ccall), and pascal. All of them
> push parameters on the stack.

Take a look at the R-call and S-call conventions used on the IBM
System 360 architecture. These machines didn't even have a stack.

--lyndon