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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:03:31 -0300
From: salvador <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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Subject: Re: Regparm and asm statements.. what now?
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DJ Delorie wrote:

> > I have new few days to play with the regparmized libc code, so I
> > would like to know your opinions and if it does have chance to get
> > into official distribution.
>
> It has little chance of replacing the default libraries, simply
> because every third-party toolkit out there would have to be
> recompiled to match it.

No if you specify the calling convention in the headers, which BTW should be
specified anyways!
I think all libc headers should clearly declare the calling convention used to
compile libc. That's common practice in Borland headers. I think they must tell
the functions are currently compiled with regparm=0 and C calling convention.

SET

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