The Old New Thing

January 7, 2004 - The Old New Thing

Words I'd like to ban in 2004

January 7, 2004 Jan 7, 2004 01/7/04
Raymond Chen
It seems to be fashionable to do a "top words" list this time of year. We have Google 2003 Zeitgeist, Top Yahoo! Searches 2003, Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year for 2003, YourDictionary.com's Top Ten Words of 2003, Lake Superior State University's Banished Words List for 2004; still waiting for the American Dialect Society's choice for ...

The history of calling conventions, part 2

January 7, 2004 Jan 7, 2004 01/7/04
Raymond Chen
Foreshadowing: This information will actually be useful in a future discussion. Well, not the fine details, but you may notice something that explains... um... it's hard to describe. Just wait for it. Curiously, it is only the 8086 and x86 platforms that have multiple calling conventions. All the others have only one! Now we're going deep ...