Re: calling convention stdcalll and cdecl call
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no> wrote in message
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* Igor Tandetnik:
I only stated that stdcall, *as it exists today*, cannot support
variadic functions.
I think what you mean is not that /stdcall/ /cannot/.
I think what you mean is /Visual C++/ /does not/.
My position, of course, is that what Visual C++ does and documents is,
by definition, stdcall. Any modification of that is something else. We
have already discussed this at length.
Anwyay, the latter is correct, and the former is just nonsense.
Now here's a strong, well-reasoned argument. It's so much easier to
dismiss an inconvenient point as "nonsense" than to rebut it.
And thus perhaps calling participants that hold a different point of
view "stupid" or "liars" might not be such a good idea as it probably
seemed at the time. These terms sound pretty absolute to me.
Yes. When someone really annoys by being extraordinarily stupid I
tend to say so. But no, as I recall, wrt. you I chose to think you
thickheaded/stupid, which can be a temporal state, not an absolute
property, rather than liar. Even though in one example, which of
course I pointed out, you did include 2 lies in one very short
snippet of text.
Which, upon futher scrutiny, turned out not to be false. I wonder if
holding my breath waiting for an apology might not be such a good idea.
On the other hand, prior to all of that, you did
effectively call me a whiner, by saying I had "complained" about
something, and as I recall also implying that in other words. You
reap as you sow, my friend.
I believed you suggested that your modified stdcall is a good idea (you
seem to still be arguing this elsewhere in this thread), and expressed
regret that it's not supported by existing tools. I used "complain" in
the sense of "express unhappiness", not meaning any negative
connotations.
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=complain
complain: express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
But perhaps it was a bad choice of words on my part, and for that I
sincerely apologize.
Just count yourself lucky that you didn't do that with some of the
oldtimers (those who to me are oldtimers).
Do they routinely seek out and beat up pesky kids like me?
--
With best wishes,
Igor Tandetnik
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not
necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to
land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly
overhead. -- RFC 1925