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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:43:49 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:49:37 +0100, Pancho wrote:

> On 9/26/24 11:10, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:42:32 +0100, Pancho wrote:
>> 
>>> ... a bitch to work out how to call Vax C from Vax Pascal, or vice
>>> versa.
>> 
>> Why would it be that hard? VAX C passed everything by value, while
>> Pascal let you specify descriptors, references, immediate value ... all
>> the options.
> 
> There ware decisions to be made, like what order do you push variables
> onto the stack, when do you push the return address, how to interpret a
> Pascal String in C.

All these things were standardized in the VAX/VMS ABI, right from the 
beginning.