Some asm help for the 'thiscall' calling convention?

[Andrew Godfrey via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 14 July 2016 at 14:01:29 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 July 2016 at 22:30:51 UTC, Adam Sansier wrote:
>> Um, no, I revived it so that people searching for answers 
>> wouldn't be led astray by idiots who pretend to know 
>> everything.
>
> My word is not COM specification of course, there's the 
> official documentation and tons of books about COM, what one 
> prefers, they all say the same thing, one doesn't need to trust 
> me on that. This one is a particularly good read: 
> https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Microsoft-Programming-Dale-Rogerson/dp/1572313498/ explains all fundamentals of COM.

COM is a model; in practice people pick the parts they need, and 
often still call it "COM". I see it used all the time between 
components that are built with the same compiler build, and so 
can be lax about calling convention. I've also seen cases with 
QueryInterface but lacking AddRef and Release, and I've seen the 
reverse. All of these were called "COM" by many people. So even 
if there's some ISO standard saying that COM must include all 
these elements, saying "everything else is not COM" would hinder 
communication.