Re: Windows API Paradigm

Ok, so does that mean that forth code should be using the Pascal Calling
Convention? Is Pascal Calling Conventions used in the Windows API?

Jodell

>
> Tuesday, July 2, 2002, 2:20:14 PM, you wrote:
>
> AoD> I am bit confused about the Term: Pascal Calling Conventions.
> AoD> I understand a convention. If I study the Pascal Object Oriented
> AoD> language conventions will that help me to understand the Windows
> AoD> API paradigm?
>
> Jodell,
>
> The basic difference is: does the routine called clean up parameters
> passed to it or is the code that executed the call responsible for
> the cleanup. With the "pascal" calling convention, the code which is
> called must clean up all parameters left on the stack. With the "C"
> convention, the routine which did the call must clean it up. Virtually
> (but not quite) all the Windows API is implemented as "pascal".
>
> Rick
>
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