Re: calling convention

2011-10-16 Thread ibm mainframe assembler list
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Re: calling convention

2011-10-16 Thread glen herrmannsfeldt
(snip, I wrote) >> The OS/360 Fortran compilers (G and H) make local copies of scalar >> variables, and then copy them back before return. (Usually >> described as call by value result.) That is legal Fortran. > FORTRAN tries pretty hard to accommodate the idiosyncrasies > of various implementat

Re: calling convention

2011-10-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Oct 14, 2011, at 12:24, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote: > (someone wrote) >> My understanding is that the C standard calls for all parameters >> to be passed by value. My experience is that IBM's C usually >> passes parameters by reference except that if a parameter is a >> pointer it gets passed b