Calling Conventions Tasks

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Visual C++ supplies several different function calling conventions. Understanding them helps you debug your program.

What do you want to do?

• Learn about calling conventions
  
  
• Use __cdecl
  
  
• Use __stdcall
  
  
• Use __fastcall
  
  
• Use thiscall
  
  
• Learn about obsolete calling conventions
  
  
• See calling convention examples
  
  
• Learn about naked function calls
  
  
• Use naked function calls to write custom prolog/epilog code
  
  
• Use the floating point coprocessor correctly