[fpc-pascal] Argument evaluation order in Free Pascal and Delphi

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Jonas Maebe wrote:

>
> On 29 Oct 2013, at 09:44, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Sven Barth wrote:
>> 
>>> The Delphi documentation is however rather vague:
>>> http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE5/en/Procedures_and_Functions#Calling_Conventions
>> 
>> I know this, and it says explicitly
>> 
>> "For the register and pascal conventions, the evaluation order is not 
>> defined."
>
> I think they use "evaluation order" as a synonym for "parameter passing 
> order" on that page, given the table below: it says that the order in which 
> the parameters are passed for register/pascal is undefined. That basically 
> means that pure assembler routines using the register or pascal calling 
> conventions are no longer supported in Delphi, since you can't know how the 
> parameters are passed (or at least there are no guarantees about it).

Probably a consequence of their adding a new llvm backend architecture.

Michael.