Re: calling functions generically

For a really robust and portable solution, perhaps you should use stubs?
Just use a simple parser to preprocess a header file with function headers
you want to call at runtime, and generate stub functions that take your
argument lists and call the real ones. If you can afford that preprocess
step (during compilation), you should have no problems handling any kind of
calling conventions on any system, because the compiler actually does is all
for you. A (very sketchy) description of this can be found in Game
Programming Gems 3, I believe. We've been using such a system for some time
now and it is very reliable.

Just my 0.02$,
Alen

> > Sometimes the complier does a "pop ecx" on return and
> > sometimes "mov dword ptr [ebp-0x8],eax" or a variant of that.
> > Can someone help me to understand how to robustly handle
> > this?



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