5.6 Parameters
Although many procedures are totally self-contained, most procedures require some input data and return some data to the caller. Parameters are values that you pass to and from a procedure. In straight assembly language, passing parameters can be a real chore. Fortunately, HLA provides a high-level-language-like syntax for procedure declarations and for procedure calls involving parameters. This section presents HLA's high-level parameter syntax. Later sections in this chapter deal with the low-level mechanisms for passing parameters in pure assembly code.
The first thing to consider when discussing parameters is how we pass them to a procedure. If you are familiar with Pascal or C/C++, you've probably seen two ways to pass parameters: ...
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