>Ahh, so this is one of those compilers from my youth that did that.
>I don't remember it being mandated in the C language (at the time
>anyway), so it's not violating the written law of K&R as it were.

I don't think it was really mandated, just the usual way of doing things. 
Remember, K&R C is the king of implementation dependent details. :-)

>I was hoping James Hendrix's book may have been freely available now,
>but that doesn't appear to be the case.  I've still no idea where my
>copy went, and I'm starting to get a little OCD over that.

I've found various sources for the pdf, including an iso image Dr. Dobbs 
(supposedly EVERYTHING Small C there was) claims to host (they presumably still 
care about its legal status). I was hoping for something a little more flat 
text....

Hope you find your book! Amazon only wants $100 for a used copy....

Willard
Sent from Samsung tablet

-------- Original message --------
From Daryl Tester <[email protected]> 
Date: 03/22/2017  3:57 PM  (GMT-07:00) 
To [email protected] 
Subject Re: [M100] Smallc tech note 
 
On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 02:46:34 -0600, Willard Goosey wrote:

> Function arguments are pushed left to right.... This is backwards
> from normal C compiling. 

Ahh, so this is one of those compilers from my youth that did that.
I don't remember it being mandated in the C language (at the time
anyway), so it's not violating the written law of K&R as it were.

From previous email:

> And if anybody has some docs on the language of Small C itself, that
> would be really really useful!

I was hoping James Hendrix's book may have been freely available now,
but that doesn't appear to be the case.  I've still no idea where my
copy went, and I'm starting to get a little OCD over that.

-- 
Regards,
   Daryl Tester
   Handcrafted Computers Pty. Ltd.

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