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    <p>Apologies - I wasn't clear.  There is an option in the MSVC
      compiler to default to vectorcall, but you have to specify it.</p>
    <p>Gareth aka. Kit<br>
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                    Of course you can force it by forcing the vector to
                    be an m128 type <br>
                    and specifying vectorcall for x86_64-win64, but not
                    everyone will know <br>
                    to do that and it gets unwieldly rather quickly. 
                    Speaking of <br>
                    vectorcall, I'm wondering if we can introduce
                    'fastcall' as an alias for <br>
                    'ms_abi_default', mostly so if we follow Microsoft
                    Visual C++'s example <br>
                    of automatically making all routines vectorcall
                    (which is closer to the <br>
                    System V ABI used by linux and will make
                    vectorisation easier), we can <br>
                    force the default one if we need a routine that,
                    say, has to interface <br>
                    with a third-party library ('fastcall' under win32
                    is what the MS ABI is <br>
                    based off... first parameter in ECX, second in EDX
                    and everything else <br>
                    on the stack).<br>
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              <div dir="auto">Please provide a source for your statement
                that MSVC uses vectorcall by default. Cause I highly
                doubt that as Microsoft is huge on backwards
                compatibility especially regarding the lower level
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        <div dir="auto">Just checked myself: cdecl is the default. So
          nothing needs to be changed here for us. </div>
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        <div dir="auto">Regards, </div>
        <div dir="auto">Sven </div>
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