1.1 Applicability

This standard defines the rules and conventions that govern the native user mode run-time environment on Alpha systems. It is applicable to all products executing in native user mode on the Windows NT for Alpha Systems operating system.

Specific examples of uses of this standard are:

• All externally callable interfaces in standard system software
  
  
• All intermodule calls to major software components
  
  
• All external procedure calls generated by language processors without the benefit of interprocedural analysis or permanent private conventions (such as those used for language support run-time library routines)