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Subject: Re: Strange instructions in compiler output
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chungwei Hsiung <chsiung2@buffalo.edu> writes:
> thank you for the clarification, but how does FreeBSD know where the
> passed arguments are?? just out of curiosity..

They are on the stack, just like in a regular function call.

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