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To: pgerassi who wrote (74153)	3/10/2002 9:40:35 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Pete, Gottfried, I looked around a bit and this is what I came up with: There are 2 popular calling conventions: C and Pascal. Under Pascall calling convention it is the responsibility of the called procedure to adjust or clean the stack. Under C calling convention, caller is responsible for pushing things on stack, and cleaning up afterwards. Pascal calling convention is most popular, since it is obviously more efficient. Under C calling convention, caller has no knowledge of what's going on in called procedure, so everything needs to be saved. Under Pascal calling convention, compiler knows what resources are being used in the procedure, so it knows what needs to be saved, so only a subset of all resources needs to be saved on stack. Joe