Question about x86 delegate calling convention

[Lionello Lunesu]

"Walter Bright" <newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:e82j04$28fs$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> It's just an artifact of the register allocator. The context pointer is 
> passed in EAX.

While on the subject, why can't a function pointer be (implicitly) converted 
to a delegate pointer? The context can just be ignored int that case so 
it'll probably be slightly less performant, but it's handy: a library could 
use delegates for all callbacks, without forcing the users to use either 
classes or nested functions. They can still use globals if they'd want.

L.