Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxj!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!hkr4627 From: hkr4627@acf4.UUCP (Hedley K. J. Rainnie) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Arguments in Registers Message-ID: <800005@acf4.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 23:27:00 EST Article-I.D.: acf4.800005 Posted: Fri Mar 1 23:27:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 04:56:39 EST References: <420@lll-crg.ARPA> Organization: New York University Lines: 6 My experience with a number of compilers (esp. 68K), argument registers are stacked. As you say perhaps there exist other implementations. I prefer the stacking overhead rather than the disgracful consequences of trashed pointers. Hedley