alt Hacker NewsCallee clean-up was (is? is.) standard for the 32-bit Win32 API; it's been pretty stable now for coming up on 40 years now.
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to11mtm • last Sunday at 2:22 PM
For 32 bit yes, although IIRC x64 convention is caller clean-up.
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Callee clean-up was (is? is.) standard for the 32-bit Win32 API; it's been pretty stable now for coming up on 40 years now.
For 32 bit yes, although IIRC x64 convention is caller clean-up.
Early in Win32 development, the x86 calling convention was __cdecl. I did all the work to change it to __stdcall (callee clean-up). Yes, it was done purely for performance reasons. It was a huge change to the codebase and as a side-effect turned up a lot of "interesting" code which relied on cdecl calling conventions.