From: Igor Tandetnik on
Ben Voigt [C++ MVP] <bvoigt(a)newsgroup.nospam> wrote:
>> "Its" here means "the function's". The type of the function comprises
>> its return type and the number and types of its parameters. So, the
>> return type should be int, but the number and types of parameters are
>> implementation-defined.
>
> I think the type of the function would also include calling
> convention.

C or C++ standards don't have the notion of a calling convention. C++ has a somewhat related notion of language linkage (as in, extern "C"), which is indeed part of the function type.
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Igor Tandetnik

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