From: Groepaz (groepaz_at_gmx.net)
Date: 2003-01-28 10:42:03
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 10:30, Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:52:38AM +0100, Christian Krüger wrote:
> > that was what I tried to say: It's Microsoft, but it's very usefull
> > (on 'small machines')!
> > The compatibility issue: It's the same with 'fastcall', very usefull,
> > saves code & cycles, not compatible and so disabled in 'strict ANSI' -
> > so why not having something like that again...? ;-)
>
> __fastcall__ does something that is not doable with standard C. The
> question is if the requested feature is something that cannot be done in
> any way using standard C. If so, then it's comparable to __fastcall__.
i wouldnt rate __fastcall__ "incompatible" in that respect though, since a
simple "#define __fastcall__" at the top of your program (or even on
commandline to your compiler) will let you compile this on any
standard-complient compiler - something that can NOT be done with that array
thing.
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