> 08.04.2011 16:25, Vlad Khorsun wrote:
>>> 08.04.2011 15:42, Vlad Khorsun wrote:
>>>> Thanks. But, if this is true : "In 64 bit mode, there is only one
>>>> calling convention for each
>>>> operating system" then we have no problem with interfaces despite of
>>>> compiler\language
>>>> on x64 systems.
>>>
>>> Yep, if forget that current FB API, implemented in current fbclient.dll
>>> use stdcall and
>>> thus Delphi 64 won't be able to work with it. And if you change this
>>> calling convention to
>>> fastcall, all programs that already work with 64-bits client will be broken.
>>
>> In Win64 stdcall is the same as thiscall, cdecl, register, fastcall,
>> anythingelsecall.
>
> Translate, please. How is it possible? If caller push arguments into stack
> from left to
> right but callee expect them from right to left, what magic let them to work
> properly?
This is compiler, who put argumets on stack, isn't it ? :)
> Or you mean that our 64bits fbclient.dll already uses fastcall only? And
> any other
> third-party DLLs as well?..
Yes. At least this is how i read papers above.
Regards,
Vlad
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