<vinu_gt@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1120488687.922465.68610@z14g2000cwz.googlegro ups.com[color=blue]
> Hi All,
>
> I had a question about stdcall and cdecl calling convention related to
> Visual Studio 6.0[/color]
Any questions that look like they may be Microsoft specific (like this one)
are better asked in
microsoft.public.vc.language
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> I have a console project and in Project->setting->C++->Code Generation
> The "calling convention" is __cdecl.
> 1) Does this mean that function calls(meaning i call a function in my
> program or a function in a dll)
> in my program will assume that the called functions have been compiled
> with __cdecl calling standard and as
> such use __cdecl convention to call those functions.
> Or
> 2) Does it mean that "by default" the functions in my program will be
> constructed with __cdecl calling convention.[/color]
It means that any function will be assumed to use the __cdecl convention
unless the function prototype indicates otherwise. Function declarations in
windows file header almost always *will* indicate otherwise, usually via
macros like CALLBACK or WINAPI.
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> Does it work the same way on both windows and unix.[/color]
Don't know.
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> Could you also kindly direct me to some nice article which explains
> this in detail.[/color]
Type in stdcall or cdecl in your compiler help file and you should get some
hits. Or do likewise at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp
--
John Carson
