Yes, I know that "cdecl" is the name of a prominent calling convention, so please don't explain calling conventions to me. What I'm asking is what the abbreviation (?) "cdecl" actually stands for. ...

My goal is to easily extract a prototype of an arbitrary function with both the __cdecl and __stdcall calling conventions. It works fine in 32-bit. The only thing that's changing is the calling con...

There are some calling conventions (e.g pascal, stdcall) but as far as I am concerned, C does use cdecl (C-declared). Each of these conventions are slightly different in the way the caller loads th...

I am reading the IDA Pro Book. On page 86 while discussing calling conventions, the author shows an example of cdecl calling convention that eliminates the need for the caller to clean arguments of...

I have a 3rd party C API that expects a __stdcall callback function. My code has an externally-provided __cdecl callback function. I cannot pass my function pointer to the C-API as they are consi...

My company provides a third party with a DLL which provides them with API functions they can use to connect to our application. The DLL was written in VC9, and the API functions used VC's default c...

In the GCC cdecl calling convention, can I rely on the arguments I pushed onto the stack to be the same after the call has returned? Even when mixing ASM and C and with optimization (-O2) enabled? ...

How are structs passed as parameters in assembly? Since structs have sizes large than normal are the individual fields passed sequentially? If so are they in reverse order like normal parameters?...

I know that __stdcall functions can't have ellipses, but I want to be sure there are no platforms that support the stdarg.h functions for calling conventions other than __cdecl or __stdcall.

There are (among others) two types of calling conventions - stdcall and cdecl. I have few questions on them: When a cdecl function is called, how does a caller know if it should free up the stack...

Below method of calling D::foo function via pointer-to-member function will generate error: must use .* or ->* to call pointer-to-member function in 'f (...)' .. of course that is not how we cal...

I have a C dll with exported functions I can use the command-line tool dumpbin.exe /EXPORTS to extract the list of exported functions, and then use them in my C# code to (successfully) call these ...

C uses the cdecl, which I've looked into and called with from assembly. It feels well enough, so why break the compatibility? Why was another convention needed?

I am working on a rather large codebase in which C++ functionality is P/Invoked from C#. There are many calls in our codebase such as... C++: extern "C" int __stdcall InvokedFunction(int); Wit...

I have created new Win32 project in my VS and have selected Dynamic Library ( *.dll ) for this aim. I have defined some exporting function in the main file: __declspec(dllexport) int TestCall(voi...

I'd listening some people saying __fastcall is faster than __cdecl and __stdcall cause it puts two parameters in register, instead of the one of other calls; but, in other hand, this is not the sta...

I have a problem with detours. Detours, as you all know, can only move among 5 bytes of space (i.e a 'jmp' call and a 4 byte address). Because of this it is impossible to have the 'hook' function i...

I have heard of some methods, but none of them have stuck. Personally I try to avoid complex types in C and try to break them into component typedef. I'm now faced with maintaining some legacy cod...

I've spent all day researching this, and I'm none the wiser: I have a C# DLL which PInvokes a method in a C++ DLL. I have had no problems doing this when compiling in Debug mode, but when co...