extern(Windows) behavior on non-Windows systems

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/11/2014 4:34 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 June 2014 at 23:27:09 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Even Microsoft gave up on stdcall for Win64 and uses the C convention.
>
> I think that's because the 64 bit C convention is a lot closer to the stdcall
> convention anyway, putting more args in registers etc...

I just think that the purpose of having a separate Windows API calling 
convention no longer makes any sense. It dates back to the 16 bit world when 
Pascal had a different calling convention and a lot of people thought that was 
better.