Re: [Firebird-devel] Reference counters in API

[Nikita K. <nn...@em...>]

>Yes, it can. It stores first 4 (on linux 6) arguments in registers, the
>rest are stored on stack using cdecl conventions.

I must say, there is a difference in treatment of the stack between Windows
and Linux systems. Windows not only passes the first 4 parameters in
registers but ALWAYS allocates space on stack for them even if the callee
doesn't have parameters at all.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235286(v=vs.80).aspx - see Calling
conversion, the second paragraph. Linux by-term doesn't allocate additional
space on stack for the first parameters.