What does “cdecl” stand for?

Question

Yes, I know that \"cdecl\" is the name of a prominent calling convention, so please don\'t explain calling conventions to me. What I\'m asking is what the abbreviation (?) \"cd

Answer 1

It comes from C function that was declared (in contrast to a C function that was not declared which was common in K&R C).

At the time it was coexisting with pascal calling convention (wher the callee cleared the stack), so it kind of made sense to call it after the programming language.

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