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Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 08:00:37 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk
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Subject: Re: How to generate a BIOS Int in inline AT&T
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George Foot wrote:

> > 1) What are "nice parameters"?
> 
> Integer numbers and pointers.  Passing and returning structs is
> complicated and not necessary.  I think floating point numbers are
> pushed onto the FPU stack.

Nope, they're passed on the CPU stack.  A return value that's floating
point is returned in the FPU top-of-stack reg, however.
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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com