[m-dev.] __fastcall convention

[Fergus Henderson]

On 04-Jul-2000, Peter Ross <petdr at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> For use with the MLDS, we should look at the performance increase for
> the following:
> 
> #ifdef _MSC_VER
>   #define CALLING_CONVENTION __fastcall
> #else
>   #define CALLING_CONVENTION
> #endif
> 
> void CALLING_CONVENTION some_mercury_function()
> {
> }
> 
> Anything whose name is exported using pragma export should probably be
> 
> void exported_function_name()
> {
>     some_mercury_function();
> }
> 
> with the standard calling convention.

Is there a compiler option to make __fastcall the default calling convention?
If so, could we use that option?

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