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Calling convention

<programming> The arrangement of arguments for a procedure or function call.

Different programming languages may require arguments to be pushed onto a stack or entered in registers in left-to-right or right-to left order, and either the caller or the callee can be responsible for removing the arguments.

The calling convention also determines if a variable number of arguments is allowed.

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call-by-value call-by-value-result call/cc callee Caller ID	ALGOL W Application Program Interface calling convention wrapper	Call-Level Interface Call Unix Callware call-with-current-continuation CALS