Calling Conventions

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Conventions for calling functions vary from platform to platform. Specifically:

• On UNIX platforms, use the C calling conventions (CDECL) in all cases.
• On Windows, use the standard calling convention (_stdcall) for all functions that have a fixed number of arguments. Only three functions have a variable number of arguments. For these three—isc_start_transaction(), isc_expand_dpb(), and isc_event_block()—use the CDECL conventions.

To make a function use the STDCALL calling convention, the __stdcall keyword must be added to the function declaration, as in the following example.

ISC_TIMESTAMP* __stdcall addmonth(ISC_TIMESTAMP *preTime)
{
// body of function here
}

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