Does Delphi use the Pascal calling convention? Embarcadero still sells it as part of RAD Studio, targeting modern platforms including iOS.
@Joe_Groff sadly this is something that I am actively looking into and running into :).
runtime: allow over-aligned types in the runtime by compnerd · Pull Request #42143 · apple/swift (github.com)
IRGen: setup foreign calls properly by compnerd · Pull Request #42157 · apple/swift (github.com)
CoreFoundation: correct alignment mis-assumption by compnerd · Pull Request #3164 · apple/swift-corelibs-foundation (github.com)
were unearthed by reviving the Win32 port for the runtime. I actually am running into problems with calling conventions for foreign functions being dropped on the floor (the current case being closures).
Aha :-) For some reason I had them muddled in my head — probably because Win16 used pascal and then Win32 changed to stdcall so I'd rather assumed that they were the same (I knew they were both callee-pop). I hadn't really appreciated that they'd changed the argument order.
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Did an official proposal ever come out of this?
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Not yet as far as I know. The remaining issues need to be hashed out in a pitch or review cycle.
According to @Joe_Groff :
- The list of issues from Jordan's OP still looks like a good list of topics to hash out in a pitch/review cycle.