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Re:Examining Windows 1.0 Hello.c by NCommander on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @02:23AM (#23308016)
It does in Microsoft's world who #define it like that.

As I remember, and if I'm wrong, I'll correct it, the different on 32-bit was that stdcall and pascal change the order of how arguments are injected.

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Re:Examining Windows 1.0 Hello.c by dblohm7 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @12:58PM (#23326222)
That's because PASCAL was used for 16-bit Windows. They only define it as stdcall in 32-bit and 64-bit compilers for source compatibility reasons.

The 16-bit Windows SDK does not define PASCAL as stdcall.

PASCAL pushes arguments left to right. stdcall pushes arguments right to left.

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