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From article <1990Dec9.040635.12696@actrix.gen.nz>, by Bruce.Hoult@bbs.actrix.gen.nz:
> [...]
> In C or Pascal you could allocate a structure as a global (static) variable,
> assign your parameters into it and just pass a pointer to the structure to
> the called routine.  The compiler might even be smart enough to use CALLG,
> but in any case the CALLS will be much faster pushing only one parameter.

Of course, copying the data into the globals might be a chore.  And,
putting all your data permanently into a global is probably not a
good plan either.

Now, Pascal doesn't allow separate compilation.  So it _could_ use the
faster call on those routines determined not to be recursive (which
can be detected at compile time in Pascal).  In C, the same trick
_could_ be used, but only if you put all your procedures into the
same source file.

J. Giles