From: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: Is it true in 4.2 ? - (nf) Article-I.D.: watcgl.122 Posted: Sun Jan 16 15:04:08 1983 Received: Mon Jan 17 01:25:29 1983 References: uiucdcs.1334 Actually, the value pushed onto the stack during a VAX CALLS instruction is the number of longwords of arguments pushed, which isn't always equal to the number of arguments - doubles are two longwords, structures are arbitrary size, etc.