[futurebasic] Re: [FB] UNIVERSALPROC & UNIVERSALFN

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From: Robert Purves <rpurves@...>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 17:55:13 +1200
On Sunday, April 13, 2003, Laurent SIEBENMANN wrote:

> The internal variables of the procedure seem to be stack based
> locals -- just as for FNs.

In PPC the first 8 'integer-type' parameters are passed in registers 
r3-r10, not on the stack.


> As for Carbon support, would Andy Gariepy be the first man to
> know?

FB's UniversalFn and UniversalProc are obsolete, for the reason shown 
in this extract from a recent Apple header file MixedMode.h

/*
  *  CallUniversalProc()
  *
  *  Availability:
  *    Mac OS X:         not available
  *    CarbonLib:        not available
  *    Non-Carbon CFM:   in InterfaceLib 7.1 and later
  */

Robert P.