RE: [GD-General] calling functions generically

[Ivan-Assen I. <as...@ha...>]

> Sometimes the complier does a "pop ecx" on return and 
> sometimes "mov dword ptr [ebp-0x8],eax" or a variant of that. 
> Can someone help me to understand how to robustly handle 
> this? I have done lots of assembly programming on other 
> platforms, but this is my first look at Intel and the 16/32 
> bit stuff combined with different modes is really confusing for me.

You might want to check out the roundup of calling conventions
Raymond Chen recently did on his blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing

(dig a bit into the archives, they probably disappeared from
the front page)