cdecl on a PC

[Phil Blecker]

In article <824 at starfish.Convergent.COM>, cdold at starfish.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold) writes:
> From article <5282 at edsews.EDS.COM>, by charette at edsews.EDS.COM (Mark A. Charette):
> > After using cdecl at work for some time and bemoaning the fact I didn't have
> > it on my PC at home, I finally decided to try compiling it at home using
> > MSC 5.1 under DOS.
> When I saw this request, I thought I was confused.
> Now I know I'm confused.
> If I open a QuickC file, and put cdecl(

The first cdecl refers to a program written in C.

The second cdecl is a keyword in Microsoft's C language. (It's their way of
declaring that a function was written in the C language, or a function
that obeys C calling conventions -- you can look it up in their docs).
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