Quote: a calling convention is a contract between caller, callee, run-time system, and operating system; must agree on parameters, results, space allocation, reserved stack, stack inspection/modification; hard to get right

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A calling convention is a contract among four … operating system. All four parties must agree on … procedure needs stack space for saved registers and … delivered, and the run-time system needs to walk … a caller and callee must agree on how … [p. 410] It is surprising that a contract so …   Google-1   Google-2

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